Review: Very refreshing main character!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
On a whim, I had downloaded and started reading the 3rd installment of this series, 'Clueless', not knowing what to expect. However, after reading the first 15% of that book, I liked it so much that I stopped and went back and bought the first two of the series so I could read them in order. This one introduces us to Stanley Bentworth, a former homicide detective now working as a self-employed private investigator. Stanley is just an average run-of-the-mill kind of guy...not another swaggering, macho, superstud alpha male. He's not a tough guy (by his own reckoning), he's not a ladies man, he's not the cleverest or smartest or anything close to it. He's got a self-effacing sense of humor, and an apathetic demeanor about most things in his life, and that's what makes these books so refreshingly different and entertaining. The story itself is still serious and dramatic, with people being killed, threatened, and assaulted, but it's told in such a smooth (and humorous) manner that makes it a very enjoyable read. Wide variety of characters, with wit and sarcasm aplenty. This may not be an epic novel per the likes of John Grisham or Michael Crichton, but it is a very fun and entertaining book that I thoroughly enjoyed.