Buffalo Mountain
Ramsay demonstrates once again that he is a superb storyteller, adroitly mixing the spy and small-town mystery genres and shocking us with one walloping big surprise midway through the book. An excellent entry in this still-young but steadily improving series.
-- David Pitt, American Library Association.
Impulse
Seldom in crime fiction does one meet lead characters as likable as Smith and his long-lost friend/new love interest, Rosemary Mitchell. Both are "pushing seventy" but try to solve the various mysteries with the style, audacity and intelligence of a Sun City version of Nick and Nora Charles.
Publishers Weekly
... a delightful escape into fiction at its best!
-- Teri Davis on Dorothy L
In his third published novel and first standalone, Frederick Ramsay proves himself to be an author worth watching.
--Woodstock Crimespree Magazine
Secrets is a marvelously plotted traditional mystery, set in the hamlet of Picketsville, Virginia and populated with vivid characters you grow to care about in the course of this tightly written novel.
-- Julia Spencer-Fleming
With regional police procedurals like this one, Frederick Ramsay will not remain a secret to readers.
-- Harriet Klausner
Artscape:
Ramsay spins a
masterful tale full of suspense of the nail biting variety. His characters, both male and female, are well drawn, and the portrait of small-town life realistic. This is a first novel, a very good read.
Recommended
Gloria Feit on DorothyL
"Well drawn, fast paced, an absolute must read for all mystery fans."
-- Sun Life Magazine |
Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and can find no support in the usual law enforcement community, he places himself on leave goes rogue to instigate and seek the person or persons responsible for putting Ruth in a coma. 
