Review: Complex, Interesting Tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2013
Forget the stereotypes of used car salesmen....John is sort of different. He gets mixed up in a murder of a young wild child, a counterfeit money gang, cops that dislike him intensely and let's not forget, used cars. His true love is a cop and his very dear friend Freddy is in trouble. He has to find the killer to clear Freddy. It is a wild ride. He is the son of a crime family and he has gone straight and is now playing detective....or is he?The only quibble I have with this book, and it is a major quibble is the structure. Present tense all the way, third person present tense I want to call it. This is the second book I have read recently with this POV and I don't like it at all. This is how scripts are written and I don't like it for novels. I guess the future John Ray books if they appear will have the same structure but I may read them anyway....will he get Den, his girlfriend, away with him on his yacht? Will Freddy straighten out his life? Will the cops keep looking for anything to put him behind bars? Who knows. Since this book was published in 2011, maybe this will be a solo John Ray book.