Review: Sportsman's Bet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2012
British ex-cop turned private investigator Ian Dodge is now living in Tobias, North Carolina. He gets caught up in trying to discover the truth about Velma Saunders' murder. Velma was the secretary/town clerk for the Mayor of Tobias and most people feared Velma as she hid her secrets behind a veil of animosity. Tobias is rocked by Velma's murder and it's up to Ian to help prove Mayor Mike Ellis' innocence. Could the secrets from Velma's past have surfaced to claim her life?Ms. Nichols' first book in the Ian Dodge series is a winner! The Southern small town characters had a lot of flavor and the secrets to be uncovered were deep and dark. The reader follows the events as they unfold through Ian's narration with a bit of Southern and Cockney Rhyming slang thrown in for color. Each of the characters are fleshed out nicely and each chapter gives us another piece to solving the mystery. Written with a sense of humor and of the mysterious, `Sportman's Bet' is a intriguing first novel in the author's new series.Ian Dodge Mysteries Series: Sportsman's Bet (1)