Review: A Rock 'n' Roll Ride
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
Jack Lockwood, Geoffrey West's hero in Rock `n' Roll Suicide, is a psychologist and an ex-profiler who suffered a couple of tragic experiences that left him shattered and in a mental facility. Newly released, he's under contract to write a book about a female rock star who killed her band, then herself. What he learns is that the scenario everyone believes may not be true. Adding to his discovery, there's a question about the death of John Lennon and who really killed him. Unfortunately, Jack's publisher doesn't care about the truth. He's only interested in the deadline. Still, Jack can't let go of the mystery and keeps digging.One of Jack's demons, a serial killer who almost made Jack his last victim, and who is definitely in prison, nevertheless keeps popping up whenever Jack looks around. It's enough to make a sane person go off the deep end, but Jack is still a bit shaky from his confinement and begins to question his sanity all over again. If the killer is still in prison, who's trying to kill Jack, and why?As if he doesn't have enough trouble, Jack becomes infatuated with women who turn up dead. That puts him in the crosshairs of the police. Poor guy can't get a break.West does a nice job of taking the reader through London and other English locales, even to Hamburg, Germany. Rock `n' Roll Suicide is action packed, with Lockwood going from one threatening situation to another. It's a rock `n' roll ride I enjoyed, mixing music with scenery, and some scary moments that kept me reading.