Escort to murder

This is the first book by this author that I have listened to but I quiet enjoyed it. I am not sure the narrator was right for the story which is why it only gets a four star from me. I liked the idea of the plot and with a lot going on it holds your interest until the end. The characters were like able but I think I would have liked the hacker to play a big part in the story, with his humour he would have added wit to the story that the main character couldn't pull off. I will be keeping an eye out for more books by this author.
Kaven is an ex cop turned private detective and for his first case he is hired by an elderly lady to find out the truth. Her daughter owns an escort agency and one of her girls was killed a year ago. The police haven't got any where solving the brutal murder and the client wants to know if her daughter was involved in the death. Kaven agrees to take the case but soon find himself caught in the crosshairs of a hit man. There was a reason the police hadn't solve the case and that was because it was more complicated than it looked and with majors players with big money involved they will stop at nothing to keep.the case unsolved.
I didn't get on with the narrator he was to gruff and I really had to listen hard to understand him. With a deep voice the characters tended to sound the same but I did get use to it in the end but can't help but wonder if it would have got a five star with a different narrator.
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Ex-homicide detective and about to be Private Investigator, Scott Maven, is asked to look into an unsolved murder of an employee of an escort agency. The client is the wealthy mother of the woman, Amber, who owns and runs Lovecraft. With no obvious suspects, and with the prospect of her own death looming, she wants to be sure that her daughter had no hand in the killing.

The narrator of this detective story is understated and pleasant to hear, with a good, even reading and character voicings. Told in the first person, Daniel Dorse takes on the personality of the investigator, the steady narration contrasting with the fast action of the character nicely. The story itself is well written and full of incident. Maven might be a good detective but he is most certainly also one lucky man, surviving numerous attacks unscathed.
Despite being an engaging mystery, however, as the book proceeded I found myself less and less able to buy into it's plausibility and even though the ending was fine it still left me dissatisfied. For this reader/ listener the characters failed to fully come to life even though their descriptions were good.

My thanks to the right's holder of The Lovecraft Murders for gifting me a copy, via Audiobook Boom. This was an enjoyable, gentle listen.

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