Book Reviews

Book Blurb

It’s all fun and games until someone leaves a dead body on the floor.

 

Life for comic book store owner Alex Martin usually runs to the mundane. Sure, he has a regular influx of geeks and freaks, but for the most part, it’s a familiar weird. That all changes when he opens up Planet X Comics one morning and finds a corpse in the middle of his shop.

 

When Detective James Castillo is called in to investigate, Alex is torn between wanting to climb the man like a tree and giving him a wide berth. Luckily for Alex, the handsome detective is just as interested in him—as a suspect in the murder.

 

 

First edition previously published in Grand Adventures by Dreamspinner Press, March 2014.

Book Review

This author is well known for her fiendish delight in murdering people. Well, characters, not real people. At least, I don't think she's actually killed any real people, but, then again, who knows? She sure is creative about murder. Poor Alex. Nothing quite like opening up your comic book store for the day and finding a dead body in front of your discount table. Not just any dead body, either. One that's been dead for a while and is rotting on your carpet. Okay, eeewwww. Then again, Alex does get to meet James, the LAPD detective who gets the case, and the attraction between the two is smoldering. Typical Rhys, however, the romance is cruising along after James solved the first homicide, when poor Alex gets another dead guy in his shop. This time, the dead guy is dressed up for their homage to Lovecraft. Killing people right, left, and center.

I love a good whodunit, although Rhys, you're going to need to expand this story because there's just too much good in here! This was such a fun, slightly gory, escape into pop culture, with a ton of laughs, and a sweet romance. James and Alex are great together, and their first date is a laugh out loud moment, and I so want to see more, more, more of this story.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Short Story, 38 pages/11559 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	16-November-2018
Price	$1.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/cops-and-comix-by-rhys-ford-10013-b