Review: Worth Reading
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2013
This book is has a mystery that is not easily solved while reading it,  even by me - a very experienced mystery reader who usually knows how mysteries will end halfway through the book.The main character, a writer who also works as a programmer and handy man on the side to bring in extra cash, is very likable.  He has a dog he genuinely loves and cares for diligently, he has a sister and mother with interesting ways of dealing with him that he takes in stride, he's down to the last of his money and has maxed out his credit cards but he doesn't let that allow him down, and he needs to work to get more money. But when his sister calls him in to help her solve the mystery of her husband's death,  he answers her call without hesitation and begins the investigation right away using all his skills and brains in interesting ways.  It's interesting how he does his investigation.I'm giving this book three stars because the story is interesting and the characters are developed well, but there is extra information in the story that is useless to the reader and doesn't help the story line and should have been edited out before final printing.  It muddles up the story and makes it hard to figure out what to pay attention to.  That is, there are to many extraneous details and extraneous little stories.