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Three seemingly unrelated murders crop up during the investigation of a decade-old chemical dump that plagues a rural community west of Nashville. PI Sid Chance, former National Parks ranger and small town police chief, takes the case and finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of lies, deceptions, and threats. Who is tailing and warning him to back off? Is the man responsible for the pollution dead or alive? When ex-cop friend Jaz LeMieux offers her help, she is awakened by an explosion behind her mansion. Is it related to the abduction of her employees’ grandson, or Sid’s case? As the tension mounts, Sid finds himself confronting the unsavory people responsible for his past troubles.
A Mystery Magazine Editor's View
"Chester Campbell’s latest, THE SUREST POISON, introduces a new character, PI Sid Chance and his side kick Jaz LeMieux...Chance is a great character, 59 years old, Viet Nam vet, ex cop and relentless. Campbell’s work here is his best yet and the book has a natural rhythm that moves the story along at a nice pace. The people who populate the book are realistic and nothing feels forced, it's as if Campbell is just telling their story without embellishing, which I found refreshing. A top rate mystery by a gem of a writer."
Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine
- Sales Rank: #770472 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-04-10
- Released on: 2009-04-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Hired to find the company responsible for a 1995 chemical spill that poisoned the land and water of Ashland City, TN, PI Sid Chance discovers delving into the past dredges up old enemies and danger. By the author of the Greg McKenzie series (The Marathon Murders).
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
The Surest Poison
By Gloria Feit
Sid Chance is a former member of the Army Special Forces in Vietnam and a former National Parks ranger for eighteen years, as well as a small town police chief for ten, forced out of office when falsely charged with bribery. Never finding who had set out to destroy him, he has taken refuge for the past three years in a rustic cabin [read "no electricity or running water"] fifty miles east of Nashville. As the book opens he finds himself wondering "if he'd made the right decision in leaving. Going back to the type of work he had pursued for more than three decades left him exposed to the same flawed humanity that had chased him up here in the first place." But he is coaxed out of his hermit-like existence by his old friend Jasmine ("Jaz") LeMieux, who has recommended him to a corporate attorney and his client who is facing major financial disaster unless he can be cleared in a chemical pollution case. Sid is hired to find the company which had owned the property previously which, they are convinced, is the true culprit.
Jaz is quite a character, literally and figuratively. She "had the looks and the brains to be whatever she wanted, and she had the money and the contacts to pull it off." Her c.v. include having been a professional boxer, member of the Security Police with the Air Force, cop, board chairman of a major company, and during the course of the book is applying for a p.i. license, the better to enable her to work with Sid, finding she "couldn't resist the lure of the chase." A second story line evolves when Jaz' employees, a couple in their late seventies, plead with Jaz to help when their grandson and his nine-year-old son are threatened. When Sid assists in this effort, it means he must, with misgivings, return for the first time to the small town he had left in disgrace nearly four years earlier.
The author smoothly blends the two investigations being worked on by Sid and Jaz, which is accomplished with a little help from his friends, which include his poker-playing pals, the "Five Felons," comprised of a Metro police sergeant, a retired newspaper crime writer, a former Criminal Court Judge, and a local homicide detective, charmingly named "Bart Masterson." The reader is treated to a good old-fashioned detective story -- and that is intended as very high praise -- with swear words at a minimum, any violence not of the graphic variety, instead a more subtle but no less lethal kind, interspersed with ominous threats, some vague and some pointed.
The title comes from a line by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which "named such things as alcohol and strychnine but concluded: 'the surest poison is time.'" Mr. Campbell has written another terrific novel, one that is recommended.
50 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Amatuerish effort
By KGS
This novel proves that being a "reporter, freelance journalist, political speechwriter (and)advertising copywriter," does not make you a novelist.
The publisher is a small firm; two of its other authors provide glowing reviews on the back cover, and that tells you a lot. The Surest Poison is a set-up novel, the first of a planned series. Consequently, it is over-populated with a "cast" of characters who most likely will appear in future novels.
The story jerks about, bogged down with a lot of vehicle changes, over-identification of the roads driven, and way too many phone calls. The plot presents two story lines that end up being two parts of one case...Surprise! The reader sees this coming from the get-go and dragging it out just insults the reader's intelligence.
In addition, the writer seems very uncomfortable telling the story as the narrator; perhaps he would have achieved more flow by writing in the first-person.
There were a couple of very odd elements included, which reveal none too subtle prejudices on the part of Sid and/or the author himself. They stand out because their inclusion in the story have nothing to do with the plot and are totally unnecessary. Did the publisher demand "something" to include minorities? And if that was the reason for their inclusion, the author's attemps should have been sent back for rewrite or deleted altogether.
The subplot concerns a young black man and his family. They appear throughout the story and are presented as very, very nice, but none too bright, salt of the earth people, who also spend a lot of time bringing Sid and Jaz food and drink, with a lot of emphasis on what a great cook the eldest black woman is with a lot of references to her cakes and brownies. Really!
A couple of pointless but equally uncomfortable entries pop up out of nowhere. One, has Sid and his lady friend (probably future love interest) entering a business in search of clues. Sid offers to get Jaz a cappuccino: "He...placed the order with an effeminate young man who wore gold earrings and gold stud on one nostril. He knew the people you encountered in small towns these days could be a little different from those in big cities." After this bit of nonsense commentary, Sid delivers the cappuccino and the story continues. What is Sid's (or perhaps, Campbell's) problem?
Another offensive and poorly written insert concerns a sales clerk approached by Sid: "He was a sloe-eyed young man in khaki pants and a blue knit shirt, likely had (did he mean to say, "likely having had") at least one Korean parent." Sid then asks a couple of questions of this sales clerk. Again, what was the point of this? If he felt obliged to make the character unique in some way, why not just say he approached a young Korean sales clerk at the counter?
Sid just isn't very appealing as a character. Besides being rather inept as a detective, he comes across as a real jerk.
At one point in the story Sid invites people to meet at Jaz's home, then asks her if that Ok with her. She respnds, "It had better be. Looks like you've already made the arrangements." The next line: "He knew it ran counter to her stay in control principle, but as long as she was playing in his league, she'd have to play by his rules." Forget about his making assumptions and lack of good manners, "she'd have to play be HIS rules." And, of course, she makes no response and it's on with next bit of so called detective work. Sid is an ass! Jaz is presented as this strong ex-boxer/ex-cop; in which case she should have and would have put him in his place.
When one of the numerous bad guys tries to kill Sid later in the story, I really didn't care. But the killer was as inept as Sid, so he survived.
When I encounter a novel like this one, I realize it just doesn't take much to get published.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
The Surest Poison
By krwt
Don't we all wish we had a cabin in the woods to escape to when life serves us one foul ball after another? Sid Chance was lucky to be able to do that after his job as police chief was ruined by a set-up drug deal, orchestrated by people who'd rather their sheriff be a half-blind lap dog than hard-working crime-buster.
That wasn't Sid's first brush with people who don't play nice, so his retreat to the hills and woods was understandable. However, he still had friends, and they pushed him into a new career as a PI, something for which he had an innate knack.
When lawyer Arnie Bailey hires Sid to get to the bottom of an environmental pollution case, Sid isn't sure he wants the job, because it would take him back to Ashland City, scene of his ruined career. Also, this isn't going to be an easy case, because the pollution has caused birth defects, and the local people are ready to lynch someone--anyone--because of what's happened.
Sid accepts the job and very soon finds out that the people responsible for the original pollution for which his new client is being blamed are tied up tighter than a bucket of noodles with his former persecutors. The plot, as they say, thickens. Or sickens.
How Sid gets to the bottom of the noodle bucket and what he finds when he gets there forms a suspenseful reading experience. Chester Campbell turns in a workman-like job with a good number of twists and that should keep your inner armchair detective on the edge of his/her seat. Campbell has some nice turns of phrase that convey a lot with a few words: "Bailey launched his short, chubby body through the door like a well-dressed groundhog storming out of hibernation." You can just see the guy, can't you?
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