Under the Radar by Annette Dashofy is the ninth book in the ” Zoe Chambers” traditional mystery series. Publisher: Henery Press, February 25, 2020.

Paramedic and deputy coroner Zoe Chambers responds to a shooting and discovers her longtime friend, Horace Pavelka, has gunned down a man who’d bullied him mercilessly for decades. Ruled self-defense, no charges are filed. When another of his tormentors turns up dead in Horace’s kitchen, Police Chief Pete Adams questions the man’s innocence in both cases. . .especially after Horace and his girlfriend go into hiding.

While fighting to clear her friend, Zoe is handed the opportunity to finally learn what really happened to her long-lost sibling. What starts out as a quick road trip on a quest for answers leads her to an unfamiliar city in the middle of a November blizzard, where she finds way more trouble than she bargained for.

Pete’s own search for his missing fiancée and a missing murderer ultimately traps him in a web of deception. Face-to-face with one of the most cunning and deadly killers of his law enforcement career, Pete realizes too late that this confrontation may well be his last.

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This is one of those books that I could not put down until the last page was read, quickly becoming a page-turner. The author delivered a fast-paced, action-packed, no-hold-barred drama that had me completely consumed and riveted by what was happening. The mystery was well-written, taunting me with multiple angles on the who is doing what to whom with victims left here and there. Meanwhile Zoe is trying to clear her friend, searching for a sibling and yes, dealing with the arrival of her mother. This combination made for an explosive tale that kept me devouring every detail as the story progressed. When I thought I had the multi-arc plot figured out, the author changed the directions to keep me in the game with a few strategically placed twists that I did not see coming. There were several scenes that had some surprising elements from an unexpected person that I relished. All in this, this was by far, the best book in this long-running and terrific series.