Detective John Watson longs for a change of pace in his career. The seemingly endless stream of mundane, run of the mill divorce cases have sullied his motivation for the job he once couldn’t imagine living without. Watson aches for excitement – where are the Mafia hits, the gangster rivals and the serial killers he always dreamt of catching?
Watson is at a cross-roads. Give up his passion for crime, continue stalking wayward husbands for angry wives or give it all up for a steady paycheck elsewhere?
Mrs. Olivia Shapiro’s case is just the elixir he needs to turn his life around. As fate would have it, Olivia’s husband, James is a missing person. The key objective is that he must be found. Or so it seems.
Detective Watson soon realizes this simple case is not so simple after all. Just when he thinks the kidnapping mystery is solved…a new twist enters the mix. Questions and answers swirl within a web of deceit, it’s his job to decipher who is telling the truth and what is a ghost-chase. As he moves deeper into a family’s past, Watson finds himself entrapped in a much larger conspiracy than he ever dreamt he’d investigate. Why is James Shapiro really missing?
I was intrigued by this read, but also a little disappointed. There seemed to be a lot going on; a little too brief, a little too much drama and really didn't answer some of my questions. However, it was not a bad read by any means. I look forward to reading continuations (even though I already have my suspicions).
The book reads very fast. The plot is a little disjointed and the characters have no depth at all. The dialogues are unlikely and it's difficult to feel any kind of thrill. The number of grammatical and spelling mistakes is also a turnoff.