Review: Mummy, mommy and mayhem
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2013
J.R. Rain's big jock PI has a mouth that's more smart than clever. He should attend the charm school where Elvis Cole and Spenser learned to quip, and he might actually be as funny as he thinks he is.  He seems to feel his mother's unsolved murder gives him license to drink himself into a stupor most weekends.  But, while the solution to Mother's murder remains available for the plot to a future book, this investigator manages (between beers) to solve two other murders, one recent and one more than a century old, and a serial vandalism.  The book is an easy read and pleasant enough.  But I probably won't rush to put the author or his boozy sleuth on my preferred list.