Kidnapped

This is another in the series about Jim Hardman, an Atlanta ex cop turned PI who works with his black partner Hump an ex NFL player. In this novel, Hardman is hired by lawyer Jack Smathers for his client, Edward Simpson, to find his 6 year old daughter Mary Anne kidnapped by her mother and Simpson’s ex wife. Simpson lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and his ex wife Margaret is believed to be living somewhere in Atlanta Georgia. Thinking this is a quick and easy case and taking it mostly because he is bored with nothing else to do, Hardman soon learns that yes, the ex wife is living in Atlanta, but she goes by the name Peggy Holt, and she seems to have a strange hold over all the men she has been in contact with. Rather than the quick and simple case, Hardman soon learns that it is anything but simple easy when he find Peggy Holt’s new boyfriend Atlanta Patrolman dead in the apartment where they were living. Hardman does manage to rescue the girl only to lose her again. Excellent book, possibly a little slow in the beginning. The book was originally written in 1974, and it’s always interesting to reminisce about those simpler days without cell phones, let alone smart phones and computers. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.