Just another Coulter FBI thriller, but still a page turner. You just love the characters of Sherlock and Savich, plus she will go back to previous towns and other cases so you can see how previous characters have aged and progressed in life. Bombshell picks up right where Back Fire left off. Agent Griffin Hammersmith is joining Savich’s special team, but takes his time getting to Washington. He stops off to see his sister who is studying music in Maestro, Virginia (the scene of a previous novel). Griffin’s sisters is known as Trouble Magnet because it followers her everywhere she goes. Now she has had her head bashed in after finding a dead body in her bath tub. The snafu is that the body has disappeared, but someone is still out for blood. This title has a double story because while Agent Griffin is in Virginia, Sherlock and Savich are in DC trying to solve the murder of a prominent political figures teenage grandson.

The story is great, but I do have complaints. The double stories get old. While the series is derived around Sherlock and Savich, it is okay if they do not play the most prominent part. I see no reason to add a second story line to increase our awareness of these beloved characters. Number two, is where did the title come from. It would make a great topic for a discussion group, but it just does not seem to stand out as part of the book. If the bombshell the beautiful woman, the story time (because if that is what bombshell represents than someone needs a different dictionary), or some great reveal that never happened.

Overall, a sound book in a much loved and read series.