Genre: Hard-Boiled Mystery
Description:
“Returning to Sydney, Detective Ramesh Ryan is promoted to the
Homicide Squad. Zoe Yang joins him there. Now a detective herself, she is
assigned as his junior partner. Straight up, the cops are off and
running-investigating the discovery of a murdered company director. Following
the clues, Detective Ryan finds that this and a second murder may be linked to
past events.
As the pressure mounts for a quick solution to the case, the detective
finds that he too, is in the killer's crosshairs. But Ryan is distracted from
the investigation by a romantic encounter with an old university friend. He
also worries about his mother, Mumta, and her new obsessive desire for
grandchildren from her only son. Could this be linked to her recent medical
tests? And there's another pressing problem-the plague of rats in his apartment
block.
Detective Ryan's hands are well and truly full!”
Author:
“Clive Fleury is an award-winning writer of books and screenplays and
has worked all over the world as a Film/TV director, writer and producer. He
has written six books, most recently All Or None, the second novel in
the Detective Ryan Murder Mystery series.”
Appraisal:
This mystery has multiple story threads which keep things interesting
and keep the reader guessing how things are going to turn out. First, we have
the protagonist, Detective Ramesh Ryan, who has just been promoted to a new
position as a homicide detective. The challenges of being in a new position and
figuring out how to work with and interact with others in the department is a
challenge. That his partner was just transferred from another city and is
learning her job as well as the both of them figuring out how to make their
team work complicates things still further. Throw in some happenings in Ryan’s
personal life and things get more complicated. All of this just makes figuring
out the mystery and where the story is going to go that much less clear for the
reader which is a positive for a mystery. The results are an engaging and
entertaining read that draws the reader in as you try to figure things out
along with Detective Ryan.
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FYI:
The author lives part of the time in Australia and some words that I’d
describe as Australian (not commonly used in American English) are used a time
or two, but it is no big deal.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an ARC (advance reviewer copy) so I can’t gauge the
final product in this area.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 words
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