by Tracy Condie
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That is my first Jake Longly thriller, however I didn’t really feel misplaced and was capable of hold the gamers straight. An pleasurable thriller, it jogs my memory a little bit of the Travis McGee books I learn after I was youthful. Totally different from these older novels are the a number of factors of view which give extra perception into what the characters are considering. This is perhaps guide seven of the sequence, but it surely does an excellent job as a stand-alone.
This story takes us to the Gulf Shores the place former MLB pitcher Jake Longly, has parlayed his sizeable earnings right into a seaside bar/restaurant referred to as Captain Rocky’s the place he holds courtroom since he retired from the Texas Rangers. Jake, who is aware of nothing about operating a restaurant, was sensible sufficient to rent Carla, who has nice restaurant abilities, and adopted up by making her a accomplice within the enterprise. When Jake isn’t sunning on the seaside or sampling the meals and cocktails at Captain Rocky’s, he’s spending time with screenwriter girlfriend Nicole. There isn’t a lot that he likes higher than spending time with Nicole, until it entails going along with her to run errands for Ray, his P.I. dad, as a result of these errands by no means work out so effectively. This time isn’t any completely different when Ray asks Jake and Nicole to select up papers from his shopper who they discover useless. Usually Jake finally ends up getting pulled (kicking and screaming) into investigations. He’s a slightly reluctant sleuth, however this time he decides to be a staff participant.
Ray and his affiliate, Pancake, had been initially employed by the sufferer, Carl Davis, to look into who’s embezzling from Orange Coast Realty, his very profitable and profitable actual property firm. They provide to remain on and work for Carl’s daughter Savannah to look into who killed her dad. Detective Brooke Peters isn’t 100% offered on the thought of collaboration, however Pancake appears to have a knack of carrying down these defenses because the sparks fly and the flirting will increase.
The sunshine-hearted banter is entertaining, and sass that appears to return from everybody besides Ray (he served as a Marine and is all enterprise) retains you laughing. While you aren’t chuckling about how a lot meals Pancake can devour, you are attempting to determine which suspect makes essentially the most sense. Suspects embrace the enterprise accomplice, Mitchell Littlefield, who might have embezzled a heck of some huge cash. There’s a former worker who feels that he was railroaded due to his aggressive gross sales ways and that every thing is BS. May Savannah, the seemingly broken-hearted daughter, be an award-winning actress? The plot builds till the large reveal and the thrilling conclusion.
On the finish of the story, the one thriller I didn’t work out was why Tommy Jeffers is nicknamed Pancake. I simply may want so as to add the earlier books to my TBR checklist to resolve that one. All in all, I might say that this thriller is light-hearted with loads of tongue-and-cheek humor however nothing scandalous.
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