Smoke Screen, Horst & Enger - B

            This follow-up novel is good, but not nearly as good as the first one. The journalist, Emma, is at the waterfront on New Year's Eve when a bomb goes off at midnight. Another countdown? Actually, it's a tie in to a case Blix worked on a decade ago when a 14 month old was kidnapped. The pacing doesn't pick up until the last third, when it hurtles to a surprising conclusion.