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keruin's review
2.0
Potential and some good stuff but...
...maybe it’s because it’s the first. I was reading along and jarred suddenly by silly small inconsistencies - the kind that take you out of the story and make you think no one has edited the piece. I came to this author through chuck wendig and I’ll read another one because there’s good stuff here. But I honestly was frustrated and on edge as I read because I needed something more to make the protagonist matter to me, and a clean text that didn’t have me saying, “wha??? How’s he gonna flop down in the hospital bed with broken ribs?”
...maybe it’s because it’s the first. I was reading along and jarred suddenly by silly small inconsistencies - the kind that take you out of the story and make you think no one has edited the piece. I came to this author through chuck wendig and I’ll read another one because there’s good stuff here. But I honestly was frustrated and on edge as I read because I needed something more to make the protagonist matter to me, and a clean text that didn’t have me saying, “wha??? How’s he gonna flop down in the hospital bed with broken ribs?”
vkemp's review
3.0
Pete Fernandez, sometime sports copy editor for the Miami Times, and full-time drunk, is asked by an acquaintance to look into the disappearance of his daughter. Chaz Bentley used to be a big-time columnist, but has fallen on hard times; his daughter, Kathy, managed to ride his coattails into a job as an investigative reporter for the Times. Now, Kathy has gone missing, just as it appears she may have cracked the biggest case of her career, exposing the name of The Silent Death, a hit-man who has plagued Miami for years. Peter's father, a cop for the notoriously corrupt Miami PD, worked on the case for years, before his death. Pete finds his father's case files on the case and begins to investigate, as he searches for Kathy. He soon uncovers a troubling pattern and then the murders start. Fast-paced action, once the set-up is done. A little too much exposition on Pete's drinking, but I will keep reading the series to find out what happens. The final scene will make the reader nostalgic for the old days of printing presses.
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