Silent Echo by JR Rain

Jimmy Booker is dying. The once highly sought after private detective is on death’s door, living

on borrowed time since the doctors gave him six months to live more than eight months ago. Jimmy is perfectly content to live his last few days sitting in the sun drinking lattes with his best friend. But while Jimmy is content to spend his last few days doing nothing, his childhood friend Eddie and the LAPD have other plans.

            Eddie’s wife has been murdered, but what draws Jimmy back to the world of crime and investigation is that Olivia was killed in the exact same manner that Jimmy’s little brother Matt was killed. While investigating, interviewing witnesses, and analyzing crime photos is taking its toll on the already weakened Jimmy, he won’t give up. Especially when another victim turns up less than a week later.

            Something is off, Jimmy knows that if he wasn’t sick he would be able to figure it out. Its taking him a while to put all the pieces together, but time is running out for Jimmy and the cases. Will Jimmy be able to figure it out before he takes his last breath, or will his disease overtake him before he solves the case?

            This book was… pretty bad. I will be honest and say that it was a freeby from Amazon, otherwise I would have returned it. The writing was to redundant, and the characters kind of flat. Numi, Jimmy’s caretaker uses the same phases over and over, and for a book that has less than 200 pages characters that seem do use the same joke over and over makes the book seem like it just repeated itself over and over. Plus, Jimmy’s social worker ends up sleeping with him, talk about bad form. It was like the author was just trying to force a romance into a novel that didn’t need it.

            Now, the parts of the book that I actually enjoyed were the parts involving the actual mystery. I think that J.R. Rain should focus more on the actual thriller-mystery part of his novels rather than the other stuff. I personally wouldn’t recommend this book to others, but if Rain focused more on the mystery in his novels I would be willing to give him another shot.