Review of First Shot By Walter Sorrells

David Crandall attends the Arsenal private school in Maine where his father is headmaster. His main ambition is to be First Shot in his graduating year. Shooting is the only thing he believes he is good at. He feels like a loser and still misses his mother who was murdered two years before. The case was never closed and now the police are saying they have new evidence and want to search his father’s house. David sees his father go out in the middle of the night and bury something that looks like a rifle, and he is scared that his father might be the murderer. David is not prepared to let things rest after his father confesses to the murder. With the help of Misty (the literal hot shot, the main contender for FIRST SHOT), a transfer student and his old friend from fourth grade Leo Fallstaff (one of the townies), they uncover papers to prove who the real murderer is. The action really picks up, and even though the bad guy was predictable for quite a while there are one or two twists that make for a satisfactory ending. Review by T.K.