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Brown

A Mystery Novel

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Brown

By: G. L. Rix
Narrated by: Theo Holland
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Name: Brown (just Brown, ma’am)

Physical Appearance/Demeanor: Bear (That’s grizzly - consider yourself warned.)

Occupation: Private Dick

Clients:

  • San Antonio’s Finest
  • Area’s most notorious gang boss
  • Hitmen
  • World renowned artists
  • Olmos Elementary School entire third grade class

Cases:

  • Find some body and return them to their forever home.
  • Find wife-beating boyfriend before contracted hitman does.
  • Perform background checks on the bad guys.
  • Find lost animals.

Most admired: Columbo

Brown: Private Eye - At Your Service

©2019 Gretchen Lee Rix (P)2020 Gretchen Lee Rix Cosy Mystery Police Procedural Fiction
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Some you win, some you lose. One plus was I got to spend some time in the company of entertaining narrator Theo Holland, even if the words that spewed from his lips left me indifferent.

We started off ok. Our main character is a PI named Brown and he is in a car park with the corpse of a grafitti artist. And then it all went downhill.

One case, kind of slid into another, then another, followed by a different one. There was no real drama, tension, mystery, humour or intrigue. It was all pretty pointless. A total mess that led nowhere, unfortunately.

The writing was ok. The main character and some of the underlings were interesting enough as individuals, or might have proved to be if there was any real purpose to their movements. There wasn't. There was some scope for drama between Brown and Mrs Casey. There was a real spark of sexual chemistry that offered some possible respite from the rest of the nonsense the book was, but that went unconsumated and the opportunity was lost.

Oh well. I won't die wondering. I liked the cover. I didn't hate the book, I just kind of wondered the whole point of it was. Writing for writing's sake.

Rix has written a second book, Browner which I won't be touching. I think a better title for this one would have been Brown Stuff.

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Read - (listened to) November, 2021
Published - 2019
Page count - 168 (5 hrs 25 mins)
Source - Audible
Format - Audible

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