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White Mountain
by Sharon Sala
Mira
April 2002
Retired Braden, Montana botanist Frank Walton comes to Brooklyn to "smell"
the Brighton Beach "Little Russia" neighborhood a reminder of his
homeland. He needs this because he knows he is dying from cancer. However,
someone recognizes him as Vaclav Waller, a Russian Nobel Prize nominee,
who died in a plane crash in 1970. Threatened to be returned to Moscow,
Frank chooses death.
The FBI cannot understand how a Russian supposedly dead thirty years is a
modern day murder victim. FBI agent Jack Dolan travels to Braden, Montana,
the last known address of the victim, to ferret out the truth. In the
remote small town a very popular, extremely successful fertility clinic
services people from all over. The local boardinghouse owned and operated
by Isabella Abbott caters mostly to clinic visitors, employers, and
patients. Jack and Isabella share the magnetism that draws them towards
each other even at their first encounter. Still, the Fed wonders how she
is involved in the secrets of a person who died "twice" and the
sensational accomplishments of the clinic run by her family and friends?
WHITE MOUNTAIN is an exciting romantic intrigue that starts off at a high
level of tension and just keeps rising until the tale is finished. The
story line is fast-paced whether its in Brooklyn or Braden. The lead
couple is a delight and the support cast brings out Brighten Beach and Big
Sky country so that readers will believe they have been to both while
perusing Dinah McCall's taut thriller.
Review by Harriet Klausner
harstan@ix.netcom.com
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