Tallow Jones: Wizard Detective An Urban Fantasy Detective Novel

Wizard of Mysteries Series, Book 1

By: Trevor H. Cooley

Narrated by: Andrew Tell

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

Dwarven kidnappers and evil wizards have invaded our world and they've brought monsters with them. Only Tallow Jones stands in their way.

Magic doesn't belong in Atlanta, Georgia. Yet it's creeping in.

When detective Douglas Jones' son goes missing under strange circumstances everyone assumes he ran away. The first break in the case comes when a long-lost relative shows up with a new name and a strange tattoo on the palm of his left hand. His name is Tallow Jones. He is a private detective...and Earth's only native wizard. A wizard is needed too because, in Atlanta, strange abductions are just the beginning.

If you like the Dresden files or the Iron Druid Chronicles, Tallow Jones is going to be right up your alley! Give it a try today! Explore this new side of the Bowl of Souls universe!

©2017 Trevor H. Cooley (P)2017 Trevor H. Cooley

Pure awesomeness!

Definitely different from my usual read. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it!

Fantastic book!

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

As with a lot of people, this book hooked me from the very beginning. It made me laugh out loud and I enjoyed it very much. It was well narrated and the characters were engaging and well developed. The world building was also done well. I am most definitely interested in the next book in this series. In fact, I'm seriously considering looking into the other books by Trevor Cooley.

Tallow Jones

I can't wait until the next book is released. There are so many aspects of this book I enjoyed. There's monsters, magic and mystery which made this book even more of joy to listen to. I never saw the twist coming. Narrator did an outstanding job. I received this audiobook for free through Audiobook Boom for my unbiased review.

Immediately Pulled Me In

This book had me from beginning to end. Cooley has created an interesting urban fantasy world as the backdrop of mystery. It has an awesome cast of characters and plenty of twists and turns and kept me listening long into the night. It’s the first time I have read/listened to anything from Trevor H. Cooley, but it won’t be the last. I was excited to see that he has another series available on Audible and thrilled to discover that it’s linked to the fantasy world Tallow Jones explores.


I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Great story!

Loved it. While not necessary, for those who have read The Bowl of Souls, you'll find some great crossovers between the two worlds in this book. It reminded me a bit of the Dresden Files. I'm really hoping book two is out, and if it is, I'm jumping right in!

Its a Good Story

I like the author, its a good story. I'm not a fan of the narrator, but that's my issue. If your looking for a good listen, you wont go wrong here.

Loved This - New Series For Me

(NOTE: I received a free copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.)

Audiobook review. Narrator: Andrew Tell

4.5 stars, rounded up to 5

This was a fun, easy read. It is book 1 in a new offshoot series of the Bowl Of Souls. I am not familiar with the other books in the Bowl of Souls series so I had no idea of what to expect in this book. It takes place in our world but with 'magic' crossing over from another world. It's a missing person mystery on the surface, but gets complicated when Tallow Jones, Wizard Detective, enters the picture to help the police in their missing person search.

A plot twist, which happens about 2/3 rds of the way through, really took me by surprise. I love it when an author can do that, although maybe if I were familiar with the Bowl Of Souls universe I wouldn't have been so shocked by the turn of events.

The narrator also did a fantastic job with the different voices of the characters. I was never confused by who was doing the talking.

My only issue with the book, which is why I knocked it down by a 1/2 star, is that there were several places with point-of-view (POV) shifting without any natural break. In Chapter 6, for example, Doug and Ross, the two police detectives, are discussing Tallow Jones and it is from Doug's POV. Doug then gets a phone call and the POV suddenly switches from Doug to Ross. Now the reader is inside Ross' head, with Ross thinking he felt uncomfortable. There's another place I marked in Chapter 12, but I don't want to detail that here as it would contain spoilers. The switches are pretty quick, and overall mostly minor, with it flipping for just a sentence or two and then back. Most readers probably won't notice it, but it's something that jumps out at me and I can't ignore it.

The story is pretty much self contained but left open for more to be written in the series; I look forward to the next book and hope it will also be in audiobook form.

Excellent work

If you enjoyed the bowl of souls you will love this book. Great story, excellent narration, can't wait for the next one!!

I am a man of few words.

I am a man of few words. fortunately Trevor is not and his words on like drinking liquid happiness through my ears. I mean not that I drink through my ears, that would be weird. I do listen to audiobooks. but I'm a listener... I can't right, (actually I meant "write" but spell check decided it knows better and put "right" so I decided to leave it. spell check you pretentious soulless disgrace to your profession)

anyway what was I talking about? oh ya... Trevor... great writer (see I used the correct spelling this time? take that spell check!)

I keep losing my train of thought. why are you were even reading this review? read the book. or listen to it like I did. I suggest you get a burrito first because burritos are awesome. breakfast burritos are my favorite as long as they don't skimp on the salsa. but if you can't find a good burrito you should still read the book.

Don't let the cover fool you!

If I only judged a book by its cover, I wouldn't have picked this one up (Seriously Uggh),  but the narrator, Andrew Tell, sounded pretty good in the snippet that Audible offered up... The blurb almost turned me off as much as the cover art, but there was something else that drew my attention...  It was a fairly flattering 3* review! That promised that this urban fantasy wasn't another Harry Dresden knockoff, as I had feared from the aforementioned blurb...
The reviewer's right, and I found the book delightful... Tallow Jones is a strange Mage/turned PI who ingratiates himself with the Atlanta Police. Tallow starts sussing out a kidnapping which most of the police force believes is simply a runaway... And I didn't see the curve ball that the author threw, 'til it hit me!
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.