Review: Good enough to make me want to read more
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
Chill’s main character, Burnside – if he gives him a first name, I don’t recall seeing it – an ex-college football star, ex-LAPD officer PI in LA is asked by family members to uncover who killed their son and brother after the police write his death off as an accident.Burnside, who lost his police career after a bad judgment call, is a bit cynical about the world at large but hasn’t lost his concern for people and the toll their decisions cost them. That elevates him a touch above the usual hard-boiled PI.Burnside’s connections within the college football community let him walk through doors others would find locked and guarded.Chill keeps Burnside realistic in that after suffering a beating, he doesn’t shake it off in a few hours. He hurts for days as a real person would.Chill kept me guessing right up to the end who the guilty party was in this well-told tale.I’ll add David Chill to my ‘To Read’ list, hoping future efforts are as good as this one.