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constantreader471's review
4.0
4 stars for a thriller private eye book set in Southern California. Rick Cahill is a private investigator who does mostly online background checks for private companies. He works out of his home, and rarely meets clients. When he does, he usually arranges to meet at a restaurant, since he does not have an office and wants to keep his home private.
He gets an unusual request to meet in person with Sara Bhandari, who was his contact in the human resources department for Fulcrum Security, a defense contractor that built radar and sonar systems for the navy as well as cruise ships. Rick only did the civilian checks, while DCSA, an arm of the US govt did background checks on all defense contractor employees.
Sara wanted to meet Rick because something strange is going on at her company and she wants Rick to check into it. Rick brushes her off, telling her that she is overreacting and leaves abruptly. He does check into the company and sends her a report. But he doesn't get a reply and a couple of days later uses an online database to find her home address. He goes there and discovers her body. She has been brutally raped. He sets out to find her killer and endangers himself and his family.
He does solve the case with help from another PI, a reporter, and a Fulcrum Security employee.
A side plot has to do with Rick being diagnosed with CTE(Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). Because of this disease, he is subject to episodes of uncontrollable rage, which is damaging his marriage. I read this page turner in 2 days.
Thanks to Oceanview Publishing for sending me this eARC through Edelweiss.
He gets an unusual request to meet in person with Sara Bhandari, who was his contact in the human resources department for Fulcrum Security, a defense contractor that built radar and sonar systems for the navy as well as cruise ships. Rick only did the civilian checks, while DCSA, an arm of the US govt did background checks on all defense contractor employees.
Sara wanted to meet Rick because something strange is going on at her company and she wants Rick to check into it. Rick brushes her off, telling her that she is overreacting and leaves abruptly. He does check into the company and sends her a report. But he doesn't get a reply and a couple of days later uses an online database to find her home address. He goes there and discovers her body. She has been brutally raped. He sets out to find her killer and endangers himself and his family.
He does solve the case with help from another PI, a reporter, and a Fulcrum Security employee.
A side plot has to do with Rick being diagnosed with CTE(Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). Because of this disease, he is subject to episodes of uncontrollable rage, which is damaging his marriage. I read this page turner in 2 days.
Thanks to Oceanview Publishing for sending me this eARC through Edelweiss.
jenniferloverofbooks's review
4.0
Thank you to Netgalley for letting me review Doomed Legacy by Matt Coyle.
I didn't realize this is book 9 in a series, but can be read alone too. I really enjoyed this book even though I never read the other 8 books. There was a lot of twists and turns and who done its. I loved the character Rick, even though he was going through some stuff.
I didn't realize this is book 9 in a series, but can be read alone too. I really enjoyed this book even though I never read the other 8 books. There was a lot of twists and turns and who done its. I loved the character Rick, even though he was going through some stuff.
achoward's review
5.0
We've known for awhile that things are going downhill for poor Rick Cahill. A title with the word "doomed" in it - well, things aren't looking good.
PI Rick Cahill, previously diagnosed with CTE thanks to all the various head injuries he's sustained over the years, is not getting much better. He isn't dead - not quite yet, anyhow - and this leaves him some time to work, be there for his family, and all those things in life people wish they did more of when they lay dying.
But he isn't doing much in the way of working beyond doing mundane, routine things that keep him of the streets, behind his desk, and bored out of his mind. That includes things like background checks on new hires for various companies.
A business acquaintance contacts him, requesting a rather secretive meeting at an out of the way location. Why? Cahill isn't sure, but agrees to it anyway. He humors her, as she talks to him about - what else? - background checks for her company, something they've always done through him, but she's found a couple of irregulars: employees whose checks were done through another company with whom she's not familiar and never heard of.
Cahill doesn't think much of it, and tells her he can look into it, but it's probably nothing. He can tell she isn't happy, and when she ends up dead - the presumed latest victim of a violent, serial rapist in the area - he isn't very happy either, especially when he's explaining to the police (again) why he's on the scene, discovering another dead body (again).
With guilt weighing on him, Cahill accepts a contract from her mother to look into her death.
Thus begins Cahill as we know him: obsessed with the case,he goes up against cops, what seems to be the evil company now doing those background checks (and who may very well be doing much more, sinister things), threats, attempts to pay him of the case, and all the things that put strain on his already strained marriage - and put his family in danger, again.
There really are two stories here, both equally good, both devastating: the actual investigatory job, at which Cahill excels, and the fallout there is to his family and how to deal with it, at which he does not. While he's capable of unwinding the former, the latter seems beyond his grasp, and it's rather sad, really.
Another excellent entry into the series, which makes its inevitable end, whenever that may be, sadder.
Five out of five stars.
Thanks to Oceanview Publishing and NetGalley for the reading copy.
PI Rick Cahill, previously diagnosed with CTE thanks to all the various head injuries he's sustained over the years, is not getting much better. He isn't dead - not quite yet, anyhow - and this leaves him some time to work, be there for his family, and all those things in life people wish they did more of when they lay dying.
But he isn't doing much in the way of working beyond doing mundane, routine things that keep him of the streets, behind his desk, and bored out of his mind. That includes things like background checks on new hires for various companies.
A business acquaintance contacts him, requesting a rather secretive meeting at an out of the way location. Why? Cahill isn't sure, but agrees to it anyway. He humors her, as she talks to him about - what else? - background checks for her company, something they've always done through him, but she's found a couple of irregulars: employees whose checks were done through another company with whom she's not familiar and never heard of.
Cahill doesn't think much of it, and tells her he can look into it, but it's probably nothing. He can tell she isn't happy, and when she ends up dead - the presumed latest victim of a violent, serial rapist in the area - he isn't very happy either, especially when he's explaining to the police (again) why he's on the scene, discovering another dead body (again).
With guilt weighing on him, Cahill accepts a contract from her mother to look into her death.
Thus begins Cahill as we know him: obsessed with the case,he goes up against cops, what seems to be the evil company now doing those background checks (and who may very well be doing much more, sinister things), threats, attempts to pay him of the case, and all the things that put strain on his already strained marriage - and put his family in danger, again.
There really are two stories here, both equally good, both devastating: the actual investigatory job, at which Cahill excels, and the fallout there is to his family and how to deal with it, at which he does not. While he's capable of unwinding the former, the latter seems beyond his grasp, and it's rather sad, really.
Another excellent entry into the series, which makes its inevitable end, whenever that may be, sadder.
Five out of five stars.
Thanks to Oceanview Publishing and NetGalley for the reading copy.
whilereading's review
3.0
Rick Cahaill, a private investigator who had tragic events happened in the past and now suffering with some kind of neurological degenerating disease.
One day received a call from a client who needed his help in finding out some information regarding her employers' activity in hiring new recruits without going thru proper screening. However things went wrong when the client found dead in her house.
A corporate involvement or is there a real serial rapist lurking in the city. Rick has to find out himself how his friend got involved and the motive.
Average crime read for me and will check out his other crime novels.
Thank you for Netgalley for the Arc & Oceanview Publishing
3.5/5 stars
One day received a call from a client who needed his help in finding out some information regarding her employers' activity in hiring new recruits without going thru proper screening. However things went wrong when the client found dead in her house.
A corporate involvement or is there a real serial rapist lurking in the city. Rick has to find out himself how his friend got involved and the motive.
Average crime read for me and will check out his other crime novels.
Thank you for Netgalley for the Arc & Oceanview Publishing
3.5/5 stars
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