The book review said this was the author's first effort and it was well done. Good story line with lots of plot twists and turns and sustained action. The main character was generally believable and not the run of the mill cop turned PI. I was a little put off by the author's desire to describe everyone's clothes with enough detail that it made me think they mattered. I finally decided that since this was his first effort in this genre he may have kept a day job in a clothing store.

I will give him another try and hope he decides to focus a little less on aimless description. The character is good and can be further developed and the author knows how to tell a story.

I liked John March and I thought the narrator was good overall, but he did tend to make some of his characters sound a little too much alike which then made the story line a little more difficult to follow.

I would listen again to this author to follow John March and see if he is a character that I would continue to care about.

Only 3 stars because I have nothing to compare it to.

Others hypercritical comments don't have much to do with the fact that this is a book you'll not regret getting. I hope the next book by this author will be out soon.

This book has an excellent premise and the story is executed with intrigue and suspense. Unfortunately, it also has a couple of problems: First, the protagonist has a stupid streak that makes him hard to root for. He does idiotic things and then repeats them. This being a first novel, I'm hopeful that the author will improve his character development going forward.

The second problem is huge: The descriptions. Oh my, let me see if I can find the words to accurately describe this problem. This author describes EVERYTHING worn by EVERY character in EVERY situation, and he does it EVERY time they appear. By page 100, I was ready to scream, and this problem is pronounced enough that I won't make it through his future books if they're the same way. I have no idea what he was thinking, and it's unfathomable that the publisher didn't insist on paring this practice back during the editing process.

NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, is left to the reader's imagination. Each time a character appears, he describes every stitch of clothing, from the shape of boot heels to the style of earrings to the color of hair ribbon, the hairstyle, the pants, the shirts, the blouse, the scarf. Matters not if they're walking down the street or staring into the muzzle of a gun, he's gonna tell us EXACTLY what they're wearing. If there are a group of people present, he ticks through each one like this. It's not limited to characters, of course. We get the same level of minutiae for every building, every room we enter, and basically every piece of furniture in every room. It's utterly maddening, and it's made worse in the audiobook format since you can't skim through this nonsense.

I want to like this author because of the good story and interesting premise. I can only hope that someone somewhere helps him understand the seriousness of this problem. Reading is about visualizing, about imagination. It's not television and it's not necessary to try to turn it into that kind of experience.

Scott Brick is an outstanding reader, so I'll listen to almost anything he reads. I was surprised and pleased with how much I liked this book. The suspense and plot development are excellent, and unlike another reviewer, I thought the various descriptions in the book added texture and substance to the story. I would compare this book favorably to Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly.