Don't Believe What You Hear

John Sandford's "The Night Crew" is not about the team that works at your supermarket, stacking the shelves at night.  The Night Crew is Sandford's novel is a free-lance TV crew that roams the streets at night looking for news to sell to the TV stations.

    The story begins when the crew tapes a suicide.  One of the night crew is killed and a link is established between the two events.  The link is the protagonist, Anna.  Evidently, a lunatic is romanticizing about Anna and is killing others whom he thinks are interested in her.

    She is helped by a former cop turned lawyer, Jake.  The two of them go through some harrowing moments in trying to figure out the "who d'un it."

     The plot is fast and suspenseful.  There were times when I thought the story would make a good "Die Hard" movie.  But everything makes sense in the end.