The First 48
By Tim Green

      Imagine yourself as an aspiring, well-known reporter who has heard your father, a retired public prosecutor, curse out a senator who is caught up in a corruption case. Imagine yourself as that reporter’s father, and you hear that your daughter is missing. The former prosecutor knows that if his daughter is not found within the first forty-eight hours, the police will tend to stop the search. This is exactly what happens to Jane Redman, the aspiring reporter, and her father, Tom Redman, in The First 48.

       Mr. Green does an excellent job in keeping the reader flipping page after page to find out if Tom is successful in searching for his daughter. The suspense is maintained throughout the book by having Tom keep a countdown on his watch. The character development of Tom and Jane is great and gives the reader a feeling of what the characters are going through and what they have to overcome. The corruption case takes a high second place to the mystery of where Jane is and if she can be found. The details are specific and last up to the final page of this heart-wrenching suspenseful novel.