Cached Out

A Cliff Knowles Mystery

By: Russell Atkinson

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Newly retired from the FBI and alone after the tragic death of his wife, Cliff Knowles takes up geocaching. While looking for a cache in the mountains, he comes across a human skeleton and reports it to the sheriff's office. Then a second body is found - a fresh corpse this time - right after Cliff found another geocache nearby. When it turns out the first remains are those of a fugitive he was supposed to arrest years earlier, he becomes a suspect in a multiple homicide investigation. He has no choice but to use his sleuthing skills to identify the mysterious cache owner, known only as Enigmal, and free himself from suspicion.

Cached Out is the second book in the popular Cliff Knowles Mysteries series. The author is a retired FBI agent. Many of his books are inspired by actual FBI cases.

©2012 Russell Atkinson (P)2015 Russell Atkinson

Cached Out

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I loved this book It is a crime novel with geocaching at the core.A well written and a truly enjoyable story. These are trails that I hike and cache on! I loved visualizing the action in all those familiar places. My only wish is that the caches were real (if not so hard) and that there will be a follow up with more caching adventure!

Good book but with a very slow start

The best way that I can review this book is to break it up into parts. The first half of the book is tedious at times with all The attention that the author gives to geocaching. Clearly he is very involved in this activity but as for me I am not involved at all in fact I had never heard of it before I found it to be very tedious and over involved. The second half of the book picked up and was very fast-paced and is truly more along the lines of what I am interested in and a good book. Joe Hempel did an excellent job as always on the narration. I was voluntarily provided this book by the author and publisher or narrator

Loved the story

Loved this story. Couldn't put it down. Joe Hempel is easy to listen to and does a great job with characterization.

This book was provided at no charge in exchange for an honest review

Wow! First geocaching mytery novel & a great one!

What made the experience of listening to Cached Out the most enjoyable?

Cached out is a story about Cliff Knowles, a young retired FBI agent who geocaches (finds "treasures" based on GPS coordinates) for fun and exercise and stumbles upon a serial killer after more than one body is found geocaching. ALong the way, we are introduced to lots of fun characters

What did you like best about this story?

I'm a geocacher myself, and I liked the way the book really highlighted the sport. In general, I loved a lot about this book. The characters were written well, the action and plot were contrived to the right realism level, and of course I love anything narrator Joe Hempel does!

Which scene was your favorite?

I really liked the scene where Cliff's love interest is dangerously suspended on a cliff and barely found by other geocachers. Suspenseful, and funny with the cliff dialog.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did listen to this book in one sitting!

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I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

Pretty Interesting But....

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This book was pretty interesting but it dragged a bit and was about 2 hours too long. I wanted to like it considering all of the positive reviews, but couldn't get into it like I had hoped. I did however learn a thing or two about geocaching. The main character seemed at times a bit robotic and considering he's an ex FBI agent, he just didn't quite come across as all that intelligent. While the mystery and adventure aspects were an interesting idea, somehow the characters of the novel took away what could have been an excellent and exciting read. The narrator was just okay and did an adequate job with each character, however, I think he could have added a bit more life to his read. He didn't sound bored just uninterested. I received this book in exchange for an honest review.