Strong Conviction [Audio CD]

Trevor Scott (Author), Read by Terry Rose (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2008

Trent Strong is back home in his northern Minnesota lake community after spending ten years working on a Chicago daily newspaper as an investigative journalist covering heinous crimes and traveling to war-torn countries. Sick of all the deaths, and content with returning to a slower pace, Trent buys the local weekly newspaper. But Trent is in town for only one week when an old friend asks him to investigate the Mammoth Paper Mill, which he suspects is polluting a small trout stream beyond EPA standards. Since the mill employs over half the town, the friend hasn't made many friends with his claim. The next day, a woman is found stabbed to death in a lakeshore motel. For personal reasons, Trent is compelled to investigate her death, as well as the paper mill. Are the two related? As Trent investigates, he runs across many people from his past. Some are potential suspects, and others make him question if his move back home was the right one. He starts a relationship with the motel manager, but even wonders if she is somehow involved with the murder. Trent must investigate around a small town sheriff and county attorney running for re-election, out-of-state thugs who want to shut him up, and an entire town that would like the whole thing to go away. What he finds will change his life forever.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Investigative reporter Trent Strong takes over the weekly newspaper in his northern Minnesota hometown after escaping a dangerous situation in Chicago. In short order, however, he encounters trouble again: someone murders Trent's former high school love, who owns the local milling company; and someone incinerates another long-time friend, who wanted to blow the whistle on illegal dumping by the same mill. Since suspicion seems to fall on Trent, he investigates. Unaccompanied by emotion, humor, or pizazz, the narration falls somewhat flat. Possibly of regional interest; Scott is also the author of thrillers like The Dolomite Solution.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

Writer Scott captures the feel of a small Minnesota town with the skill of someone who has lived in such a setting. Strong Conviction is filled with scents, sights, and sounds to tantalize the reader, making the town itself one of the leading actors. The characters leap from the page as the reader devours each page. In Strong Conviction author Scott has produced a first class shocker fully developed with crystalline and lively dialogue, adroit pacing, and commanding characters who find themselves enmeshed in extraordinary and often deadly circumstances, with the right mix of potent romantic interest. The reader is snared from the opening paragraph and held tight to the last sentence. Watch for twists, turns and red herrings. Good book for a lazy weekend. --Scribesworld

Strong Conviction is a good crime story with interesting characters and solid writing. Trevor Scott weaves a web of small-town controversy that entraps our hero...with vivid description he paints characters who breathe and sets up believable conflict. --Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Commercial

Investigative reporter Trent Strong takes over the weekly newspaper in his northern Minnesota hometown after escaping a dangerous situation in Chicago. In short order, however, he encounters trouble again: someone murders Trents former high school loveand someone incinerates another long-time friend. Since suspicion seems to fall on Trent, he investigates. --Library Journal

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Books In Motion (March 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596079975
• ISBN-13: 978-1596079977
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,535,963 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Trevor Scott was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He is the author of a dozen mystery/thriller novels in the Jake Adams International Thriller Series, the Hypershot Series, and the Tony Caruso Mystery Series. He was an aviation ordnanceman on the flight deck of aircraft carriers in the Navy, and was a captain in the Air Force, where he was stationed in a missile squadron for three years in Germany during the fall of communism and the Berlin Wall. He was the section commander in a B-52 squadron during the Gulf War. He was awarded numerous military medals, as well as a German shooting award. He is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He has a master's in creative writing from Northern Michigan University and a bachelor's in English from the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He has traveled to 50 countries and currently resides on Padre Island, Texas. When he is not traveling or writing, he spends as much time as possible hiking and hunting the western mountains.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Small Town Mystery, May 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Strong Conviction (Paperback)

I've read everything Trevor Scott has written, and this book is right up there with Fatal Network and Hypershot. The difference? This book is not a traditional thriller, but a small town mystery. Scott makes Bear Lake, Minnesota one of the characters in this book. You actually feel like you're on the lake and in this small northern Minnesota town. His actual characters are full and flawed and good, bad and ugly. This guy can write! When I tell my friends about Trevor Scott, they all say "Who?" Well, everyone is about to find out soon enough. You heard it here first. Bravo!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NOW ON TO MY NEXT TREVOR SCOTT BOOK, December 22, 2011

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This review is from: Strong Conviction (Kindle Edition)

Well written mystery set in a small town. I enjoyed this book enough to purchase a few more by Mr. Scott. Happy to have found another author to follow.