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Ryan Kincaid Mysteries #3
Winter Justice
For gay antique dealer, Ryan Kinkaid, winter starts off much colder than the low temperatures affecting his happy new life with Ty in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Ryan can’t remain idle when his best friend, Jason Norkowski, is a suspect in the death of Grumman Myers, a wealthy art collector and philanthropist. From the start, the odds are stacked against his streetwise friend. Ryan is bent on proving that a Park Avenue socialite, the only other person in the Beacon Hill residence that night, is the true culprit. Unfortunately discovering her possible motive is like spotting a white rabbit in a snowstorm. In this tale of unrelenting friendship, Ryan must leave his beloved Ty and return to Manhattan to find answers. Time is of the essence as Ryan must, with the help of Lauren and Ty’s mother, untangle a web of lies and deception before his friend is charged with murder. That prospect alone comes close to destroying Jason and, in a fevered passion to prove Jason’s innocence, Ryan begins to unravel a history of betrayal, revenge, and greed that may prove to be his own undoing.
169 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2013
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October 3, 2016
(Mild spoilers about a couple of events up to about a quarter of the way in)
Well, rats. The mystery itself wasn't too bad, but the characters were annoying and stupid, people did illogical things whenever the plot required, and the writing was clunky. Some things that annoyed me:
- at one point the main character yells at his friend who is in the hospital after attempting suicide. Literally yells. And tells him it is a good thing the scars on his wrists hurt. I really don't like the trope of yelling at someone for getting hurt anyway, but this was way beyond that.
- the way the attempted suicide was handled was flippant and unrealistic. The character tries to kill himself after a police officer acts a bit suspicious of him, goes to the psych ward, and is out and fine in a few days.
- it is a longstanding trope in mysteries that the cops are going to settle for the easiest suspect and not do a thorough investigation, so the amateur sleuth has to step in. But this time, the police office had every reason to be thorough and no reason to want Ryan's friend to be guilty - Ryan had just cleared a relative of the cop from undue suspicion. In service of the story, the cop had to be completely incompetent - he couldn't even do a basic background investigation of the other suspect.
- and when I say "other suspect", that is what I mean. There were two suspects. It wasn't a locked room mystery, the means of death was poison (which could have been put in place earlier), and everyone decided immediately that the two people in the house when the victim died were the only two people who could have done it.
- almost every character was annoying - bossy, flippant, insensitive. Ryan was especially this way. I was amazed to read that he is supposed to be 40 - he acted like a not very mature 20 year old.
Do not want.
Well, rats. The mystery itself wasn't too bad, but the characters were annoying and stupid, people did illogical things whenever the plot required, and the writing was clunky. Some things that annoyed me:
- at one point the main character yells at his friend who is in the hospital after attempting suicide. Literally yells. And tells him it is a good thing the scars on his wrists hurt. I really don't like the trope of yelling at someone for getting hurt anyway, but this was way beyond that.
- the way the attempted suicide was handled was flippant and unrealistic. The character tries to kill himself after a police officer acts a bit suspicious of him, goes to the psych ward, and is out and fine in a few days.
- it is a longstanding trope in mysteries that the cops are going to settle for the easiest suspect and not do a thorough investigation, so the amateur sleuth has to step in. But this time, the police office had every reason to be thorough and no reason to want Ryan's friend to be guilty - Ryan had just cleared a relative of the cop from undue suspicion. In service of the story, the cop had to be completely incompetent - he couldn't even do a basic background investigation of the other suspect.
- and when I say "other suspect", that is what I mean. There were two suspects. It wasn't a locked room mystery, the means of death was poison (which could have been put in place earlier), and everyone decided immediately that the two people in the house when the victim died were the only two people who could have done it.
- almost every character was annoying - bossy, flippant, insensitive. Ryan was especially this way. I was amazed to read that he is supposed to be 40 - he acted like a not very mature 20 year old.
Do not want.
May 1, 2015
Better than the others
This story was much better than the other two. Better writing and an even better twist at the end. If you like quick reads, then this is the series for you.
This story was much better than the other two. Better writing and an even better twist at the end. If you like quick reads, then this is the series for you.
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