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A review by appalonia
Hell Hole by Chris Grabenstein
4.0
If you’ve read any of the John Ceepak series, you already know the setup. If you haven’t read any of the series, what are you waiting for?
The book opens with Danny and another officer investigating a noise complaint. When they arrive, they find some soldiers celebrating a bit too zealously. While there, a phone call comes in that one of their troop has been found dead in the bathroom at a rest stop nearby, an apparent suicide. Danny offers to drive the soldier to the rest stop to identify the body. While observing the scene of the crime, something about it bothers Danny and he takes the opportunity to take a picture using his cell phone. The next day Danny shows the picture to his partner, Officer John Ceepak. The two officers proceed to launch their own investigation and quickly determine the soldier did not die of suicide but from murder.
I was relieved to find that John Ceepak is still a man who does the “right thing”, someone you can rely on and admire. And the secrets of Ceepak’s past are being slowly revealed with each book. Danny is slowly growing as an officer and a man, but retains the “golly gee” enthusiasm that makes him such an appealing character. And I’m glad he seems to have finally found a girlfriend. The setting of the book, a New Jersey resort town called “Sea Haven”, is just fun to read about. I look forward to the next book, which I’m now assuming will be set mostly in Ohio. I can’t wait.
The book opens with Danny and another officer investigating a noise complaint. When they arrive, they find some soldiers celebrating a bit too zealously. While there, a phone call comes in that one of their troop has been found dead in the bathroom at a rest stop nearby, an apparent suicide. Danny offers to drive the soldier to the rest stop to identify the body. While observing the scene of the crime, something about it bothers Danny and he takes the opportunity to take a picture using his cell phone. The next day Danny shows the picture to his partner, Officer John Ceepak. The two officers proceed to launch their own investigation and quickly determine the soldier did not die of suicide but from murder.
I was relieved to find that John Ceepak is still a man who does the “right thing”, someone you can rely on and admire. And the secrets of Ceepak’s past are being slowly revealed with each book. Danny is slowly growing as an officer and a man, but retains the “golly gee” enthusiasm that makes him such an appealing character. And I’m glad he seems to have finally found a girlfriend. The setting of the book, a New Jersey resort town called “Sea Haven”, is just fun to read about. I look forward to the next book, which I’m now assuming will be set mostly in Ohio. I can’t wait.