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Minneapolis Police Detective Marshall "Mars" Bahr is about to leave the Homicide Division to work the cold case unit, but not before having one more hot case dropped in his lap. Tayron Jackson is a point guard on the local professional basketball team. He may be talented, but he's sure not popular, not with his teammates, not with the fans, not with the team's owner. No one, though, hates Tayron more than his in-laws and his soon-to-be-ex-wife, Terri. Terri is finally about to escape her abusive marriage, with full custody of her daughter, thanks to her parents' willingness to pay off Tayron . . . in the amount of one hundred million dollars. No sooner is the necessary paperwork signed, though, than Terri is found dead, beaten to death in her own home. Popular opinion is that Tayron is responsible and Mars agrees. There's just one problem -- Tayron has an alibi, one that Mars has nine days to break. Once Mars' transfer to the cold case unit goes through, the Jackson case will no longer be his, and this is one the Mars very much wants to solve, for Terri, for her parents, and for Terri's young daughter, who is living with her violent father and cut off from her loving maternal grandparents. Mars cares about all his cases and all the victims, but when children are involved, it becomes personal. Mars, a divorced father, adores his son. He pays exorbitant child support and bends over backwards to keep his relationship with his ex-wife civil, all for the sake of his son. It seems though that, as with the Jackson murder case, Mars' best efforts may not be enough. This series has been a winner from book one and Erickson's touch has grown only more deft. In this, her third book, she's ratcheted up the suspense, but not at the expense of the emotional involvement readers have always had with Mars, his coworkers, and his son. (Has there ever been a more appealing fictional child than Chris Bahr?) THE LAST WITNESS has a complex, yet easy to follow, plot, with a final twist that will have any reader's heart racing. There's a heart-tugging subplot that is as absorbing as the murder investigation itself. This is a "must read" for those who have never before read Erickson. Those who have, don't need any encouragement -- they know that any book by Erickson is a "must read."
Reviewed by Susan Anderson, June 2003
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