This is my first Jack Fredrickson book and I really enjoyed it! The main character Dek Elstrom is apparently part of a series he writes but I have not read it yet. Seeing how much I liked this story; I will have to check it out.
The story starts out with a bang, or rather a slice. Sara Jensen is brutally murdered by her live-in boyfriend, Martin Tripp. Stabbed to death and left to bleed out on her bedroom floor, Martin immediately confesses. Due to some fancy footwork by his attorney, Martin is acquitted and walk free. A local hot dog joint is one of the main locations mentioned and also happens to be Deks favorite place to hang out. Martin tracks Dek down there and implores him to find out what happened the night Sara was murdered.
Martin gives Dek a deposit of a couple hundred dollars to see if he can find anything that might indicate his innocence with the promise of more money to come. Dek isn't sure this is anything he'd like to be involved in but relents and starts asking questions. And boy, does he get into some crazy stuff. Martin goes missing, someone thinks they saw Sara at a hotel (despite her supposedly being dead), there's a crazy party with elderly women taking their tops off, an explosion at the bank, and a very corrupt little town that Dek is determined to stay in.
All in all, I really enjoyed this story. It could have been shorter, there is a lot of filler and stuff I found to be really boring, like what Dek ate all day and the crazy pierogi cooking grandma. The chapters are short which I like and despite the filler, the story has great pacing. I really was stumped with how he was going to wrap it all up, but in the end, it all comes together nicely. I will definitely be checking out more from this author. I received this book free from NetGalley for an honest review.
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