Murder in the Rough

Head Rock Harbor Mystery, Book 2

De: Chase Connor

Narrado por: Nick Trengove

It's not that finding dead bodies is uncommon in Head Rock Harbor, Jackson Harper simply didn't expect to find one when out for a day on the Mississippi with Sawyer Robinson.

While out looking for illegal trotlines, Jackson and Sawyer find the body of a man by a campsite, dead from an apparent shotgun blast to the chest. After a brief investigation and the arrest of a notorious Head Rock Harbor resident, Chief Bucksworth is happy to close the investigation. However, Detective Jeremy Morrison isn't so sure that his boss has the town's best interests at heart.

As always, Jackson is suspicious of any crime in Head Rock Harbor and cant keep his nose out of police business. He has no solid evidence, but something simply doesn't feel right about the crime scene. He busies himself taking casseroles to the mourning family, questioning witnesses, and even fighting the police chief when the wrong suspect is arrested. When Jeremy decides that he has no one on his side at the police department, he goes against his own protocol and asks Jackson for help. Together, the two of them will find out if they are simply paranoid or if there's a killer with a shotgun loose in their quaint little riverside town. Rattlesnatch's new obsession might be the clue that unravels the entire mystery

©2024 Chase Connor (P)2024 Chase Connor

Definitely my new favorite Cozy Mystery series!

The first two books in this series were so very charming, I already know I’m going to obsessively listen to them again and again ad nauseam

Not a Mystery, but a monologue of a narcissist

The first book in the series I read on Kindle. I thought maybe this is a Mystery with a gay main character. The 2nd book which I listened to on Audible made it clear it was really about a delusionally self-obsessed gay man talking about the universe around him, and how it all was about him. In one short section the word 'I' or personal pronouns referring to him were used 78 times. His cat was just an animation that responded to support his self-obsession.
Only because I paid for it in Audible and maybe to some degree I really wanted a gay related piece of fiction to be about a story that a guy who coincidentally was gay worked around, did I try to get through this.
Maybe the narrator who perpetuated the stereotype of gay men as (swishy guys always thinking of how their "forest green" looked on them and who was respecting their all important feelings about everything) was to blame to some extent.
Maybe if some unicorns were thrown in I would have enjoyed it as gay oy fantasy.
Me and Mulder, for as long as I could, wanted to believe.