A Book To Die For, Richard Houston
A Book To Die For, Richard Houston
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A Book To Die For

Author: Richard Houston

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog. This time the story takes place in the foothills of Denver. Jake is accused of manslaughter, and he has to prove the accident was really murder. Along the way, he encounters a poaching ring and falls in love with a beautiful game warden. The characters are memorable, and the plot is multi-layered. This whodunit will keep listeners guessing until the very end.

About Richard Houston

Richard Houston worked as a carpenter for twenty years while taking college classes whenever he could. After earning a bachelor's degree in math he spent the next twenty-five years as a successful software engineer. Although he found success in those professions, he always dreamed of writing a novel. He honed that craft by taking every creative writing class he could. Somehow his poems and short stories usually had a dog as a major character. One in particular, Begging Not for Love, was published by the Mendocino Review.

Richard now lives and writes at his lake home in Missouri, where he and his wife are raising their granddaughter, two dachshunds, and a rescue dog that is mostly golden retriever.

Reviews

Goodreads review by R.J.

A Book to Die For is one of those books where you want to go back and find the clues you missed. The foreshadowing when you were too new to the story to catch it. The key detail that went unnoticed because the scene was so emotional or action-packed. The physical positioning between characters you o......more

Goodreads review by Tejas Janet

3 to 3.5 stars. A good cozy mystery to curl up to pass a pleasant evening with fairly light fare. Even tho it has some sad events, these seem to add a slight bittersweetness that keeps the book from becoming annoyingly saccharine. Kind of setting it in a more sympathetic, "keeping-it-real" light. I......more

Goodreads review by Eirlys

A good read More adventures with Jake and his dog Fred. I liked the way that Jake and Fred both interacted with Bonnie, although she was not her usual self.......more

Goodreads review by Henry

I reviewed the author’s first mystery and found it a fresh take on the genre with much wry humor. The current one is a welcome follow up. It has one of those incredibly complex plots that had me scratching my head, and a large cast of supporting characters that I had to make notes to keep track of.......more

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