A Big Jigsaw Puzzle.

After so many years of reading, not many books surprise this reader any more. This one did.
Told in the first person by one of the main protagonists, it has the affectation of a modern Sherlock Holmes story with all that this implies, plus several murders, well written characters, a background history and a convoluted plot, a shifting sands of 'lies inside deceptions'.

Poisoned Pawn is not a casual read. Full concentration is required as the story progresses, with multiple protagonists bursting into the text, sometimes at very unexpected moments. it might seem bland at the beginning but soon shifts up into more treacherous developments. It is a detective, P.I., murder mystery, buddy, spy, modern Holmes and Watson thriller, well written and superbly read by R.E.Harter, who narrated it with the restrained personal and intimate delivery similar to George Kuch. His individual voicings are good, too, but with so many apparent changes of direction, even who says what can sometimes be momentarily confusing. I am not even going to attempt a brief resume.

My deep thanks to the rights holder of The Poisoned Pawn, who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Audiobook Boom. This has been a difficult brief review to write, even more so to rate. Did I enjoy the book? Most definitely. If there is a successor, will I want to read it? Absolutely. Can I recommend it? Ah, now, that depends on the potential reader not minding twists and turns, confusion and an ending which, though completing the story, still leaves unanswered questions. Or perhaps that's just a lack of concentration on my part - though I don't think so

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