Net Loss

By Tim Hein

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933449462
• ISBN13: 9781933449463
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Nightengale Pr
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A nail-biting, twenty-first century chiller.

Net Loss is a thrilling suspense story of an online connection turned desperate and deadly. Chicago native Kyle Schmidt, consumed with anger for the citizens of a tiny Wisconsin town after two of its delinquents attack him and ruin his life, tries to forget himself in a brief online affair with Shelly Ruzinski, a miserable corporate wife. He moves on from the affair; she does not, and her burning desire to prove her love leads her to initiate a string of killings, starting with Kyle's assailants. Tyson Hendrick, an eleven-year-old witness to murder, cannot convince the beleaguered police chief that Shelly was responsible instead of Kyle; as events become ever more frantic, Kyle and Tyson must join forces to stop Shelly before her mad love drives her to the final sacrifice. A nail-biting, twenty-first century chiller.

Crazy Chick With Lots of Local Color

To meekly add to that posted by the previous reviewer, Net Loss is a quality first novel written by someone with a deep understanding of the eccentricities of the Wisconsin mindset, and the ability to tell an increasingly compelling murder mystery thriller. In Net Loss we learn why we probably shouldn't consider a career in banking, that beer and ice fishing are REALLY important to certain strata in America's Dairyland, and that using web chats for romantic purposes can be problematic. Hein begins with a withering look at his Wisconsin characters, then successfully builds storyline upon these losers and malcontents. The number of characters is large; the number of their foibles even larger. Still, by the end the reader is riveted as a grizzled cop and a mysterious boy wander through a snowy Wisconsin night (is there any other kind?) looking for a woman who a professional psychiatrist would clinically label as a "crazy chick". If you like your chicks crazy, your social analysis barbed and poisonous, and a good chase through the snow thriller, Net Loss is a good book for you. Hein proves he can handle a complex plot engagingly, but perhaps even more interesting to readers farther from Lake Superior is his skill in relating Wisconsin life, icy warts and all.