Review: You won’t be “Ungrateful” for picking this up!  #badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
I found “The Zen Man” in one of my many Amazon link holes that I fell down (find a book that looks interesting, click an “Also Bought…” link, repeat).  I bought it, but then after the purchase, saw that there was a prequel short story released recently.  So I decided to check it out, before the main book.Rick Levine is a private eye, who gets pulled into a case, involving a dead body at a coroners convention.  Like, one that’s not supposed to be there.  Rick, even the romantic, decides to bring his new girlfriend Laura along for the ride!This is a really good starter to the main book (I assume so, at least, I haven’t read the main book yet).  It sets up characters really well, and the setting is fairly inventive, with just a hint of police-procedural-esque cliché and coincidence thrown in.  Not in a bad way, either, I think that it is fairly obvious that everyone, author included, is in on the joke, which makes it workWhile it is short (it is billed as a SHORT story, by the way), I think it is worth picking up.  And, if you do like it, then you have an entire book waiting for you after that!  I highly recommend it.