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Jul 16, 2019JLHCKY rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
4 Stars. Not as good as one or two of Barclay's other entries, but it has its share of twists and turns. The suspense is not only at the end! It takes place in upstate New York near Buffalo and the Falls. Toronto pops up. Cal Weaver had been an officer with the Promise Falls Police, but an anger management issue has resulted in him relocating to Griffon and becoming a PI. Even here he remains reluctantly close to the police as his wife Donna's brother is the Chief. Donna and Cal have recently lost their son Scott in a fall as a result of a drug overdose. With his marriage slipping away, Cal feels that finding Scott's dealer may bring closure. When a teenage girl knocks on his car window in a downpour asking for a ride home, "I knew your son," she says, he knows it won't look good, but how can he say no? Within a day, she's disappeared and there's been a murder too. He feels compelled to find Claire but resistance to his involvement piles up - from the police as well as from Claire's father, Mayor Bert Sanders. Watch as Cal's cynicism serves him well and then it doesn't. A sad and tragic tale. "A Tap ..." is one of the 4,000 or so titles in my "A Basic Mystery and Thriller Compilation" on Goodreads. (July 2019)