Review: Keep them coming, Mr. Carson.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
A second novel in a series often isn’t as good as the first – the dreaded sophomore slump. That’s not the case here.The Silversmith is a better story than Foreign Deceit. It’s tighter, more crackling with tension, a better tale overall. Dave Wolf, Carson’s main character, faces trouble right from the start, when a local power player stacks the deck to get his own son appointed police chief over Dave. Things only get worse from there and Dave ends up putting it all on the line to save his freedom and his life.There was only one thing in the book that bothered me. Carson has no problem describing how gunshots kill people, but when Dave was in a fight to the death with the power player’s hired goon, he just sort of glossed over how Dave killed him, it. That was a major turning point in the story and, while I had my suspicions of what happened, I would have liked to have known for sure.This Kindle book had far less typo and other errors than many I’ve read. Note to all authors publishing e-books: good proofreading does wonders for your manuscript.I have the next book in the series, Alive and Kicking, in my ‘to read’ pile and will be starting it soon. And I see there is a fourth book in the series.