Fire Cracker

P. J. Gray #2

by Shirley Kennett

When a diabolical hacker breaks into the hospital's computer and starts tampering with medical orders, patients start dying, and forensic computer simulation expert and psychologist PJ Gray, along with homicide cop Leo Schultz, races against time to stop a maniacal mastermind who dares them to catch him. Reprint.

Genres: Mystery

327 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Shirley Kennett is the author of the PJ Gray series of thrillers, which center on a psychologist and single mother who deploys virtual reality technology to solve homicides for the St. Louis Police Department. The novels in the series include Gray Matter, Fire Cracker, Chameleon, Act of Betrayal, and Time of Death. She is also the author of Burning Rose, a stand-alone environmental mystery. Under the pseudonym Dakota Banks, Kennett wrote the Mortal Path series of supernatural thrillers. She lives in Missouri.

Shirley Kennett is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the American Crime Writers League. She lives with her husband, two sons, and several cats in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

aka Morgan Avery, Dakota Banks.

Reviews

[Jerry King · Rating 3 out of 5]

1997

[Antonia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Technology is dared, sex seems gratuitous.

[Mary Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

PJ Gray, a psychologist and expert in forensic computer simulation heads a police team in St. Louis. Her principal partner, Leo Schultz is a politically incorredt old school cop. They work surprisingly well together. I have difficulty understanding how Virtual Reality can be used in crime solving if you don't know the answers ahead of time. But the characters are fun and the villian is purely evil.

[Jeanne (love2cook) · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this story Leo Schultz, homicide cop, and PJ Gray, Director of Computerized Homicide Investigations Project, working together to find the murderer of an elderly lady at a St Louis hospital. They suspect the someone is tampering with the hospital's computer system. They may be hunting a man who doesn't exist. Namely, Cracker, a computer hacker who engineered his own death and disapperance. This has a riveting plot, lots of action, suspense and a cast of intense characters

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like this series. I wish she wrote more.

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting mystery about computer crime.

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

PJ Gray #2