TY - BOOK AU - Pearson,Ridley TI - Killer weekend T2 - Walt Fleming SN - 1602850178 AV - PS3566.E234 K56 2007 U1 - 813/.54 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Sheriffs KW - Fiction KW - Assassins KW - Women presidential candidates KW - Assassination attempts KW - Sun Valley (Idaho) KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Bestseller Pearson's workmanlike thriller, the first in a new series, has all the right ingredients: a down-to-earth hero, sheriff Walt Fleming; a neatly focused venue in the form of a weekend business conference at an Idaho resort; and a sense of impending danger in the form of a threat on the life of Elizabeth Shaler, the New York State attorney general, who's about to announce her candidacy for U.S. president. Shaler knows what it's like to be a victim. Eight years before the killer weekend of the title, she was attacked in her Sun Valley, Idaho, vacation home and saved by Fleming, then a patrolman. Fleming takes the present threat very seriously, but Shaler's handlers and the event's organizer, billionaire Patrick Cutter, won't cancel her speech. Fleming doggedly struggles to identify the assassin, who cleverly overcomes massive security to infiltrate the event, but the motive for the threat is never satisfactorily explained ER -