Shadow Season

Finn is a former N.Y. City cop who is haunted by the incident that left him blind and his wife, Danielle, dead.

He works as a professor at a girl's prep school outside of New York.

The story centers on incidents during the Christmas vacation. The campus is mostly deserted. The only other male present is an Irishman named Murphy or "Murph." He has a bad shoulder and to the blind Finn, Murph ...smells like shaving lather and whiskey." Murph serves as the school's groundskeeper.

Although blind, Finn's other senses are heightened and one night during a bad snowstorm hears a person moaning. Finn follows the noise and finds a girl from the town who has been injured. Finn brings her to his room to bandage her wounds. Her name is Harley Moon and she tells him not to call the police but that he is in danger. Then Harley leaves.

The author uses flashbacks to learn of Finn and his former partner, Ray. We learn that there were a number of police officers who were taking money from a criminal named Carlyle and that Ray was included in that group. We also observe that Ray is jealous of Finn.

At the school, a number of the female students are having a party with some alcohol they have smuggled into the school. Finn is considered to be a pal and is invited. As the party progresses, they realize that one of their classmates is missing and Finn goes in search of the student.

The suspense is well done and the author does a good job in describing the difficulties that a blind person would have in getting around, in general and in attempting to save the students and himself from whoever is stalking him, or them.

An enjoyable story with Finn, a sympathetic character who shows his courage, empathy and professionalism in dealing with the young students and criminals. ( )

Finn, a NY policeman blinded by his wife's killer, is a literature teacher at a remote girls school when he is attacked by drug dealers connected to his former partner who is in prison for drug dealing. His heightened sense of hearing and smell and touch plus his amazing way of getting around with his blindness give him the tools to survive and kill his attackers. ( )