A Treasure to Die For, Richard Houston
A Treasure to Die For, Richard Houston
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A Treasure to Die For

Author: Richard Houston

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 6 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/13/2017

Synopsis

There is a treasure high in the Colorado Rockies waiting for someone to find it. Jake Martin couldn't care less. Since the death of his wife, all Jake wants is to be left alone in his mountain cabin where he and his dog, Fred, can get on with life. But when it becomes known that the location of the treasure is encrypted in a message left by a nineteenth-century miner, people begin to die, and Jake's good friend and neighbor becomes the number one suspect.

The old miner used a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a key to his coded message, and the real murderer wants that edition so bad, he's willing to kill for it. Can the amateur sleuths decode the message and stop the murderer, or have Jake and Fred finally met their match?

About Richard Houston

Richard Houston worked as a carpenter for twenty years while taking college classes whenever he could. After earning a bachelor's degree in math he spent the next twenty-five years as a successful software engineer. Although he found success in those professions, he always dreamed of writing a novel. He honed that craft by taking every creative writing class he could. Somehow his poems and short stories usually had a dog as a major character. One in particular, Begging Not for Love, was published by the Mendocino Review.

Richard now lives and writes at his lake home in Missouri, where he and his wife are raising their granddaughter, two dachshunds, and a rescue dog that is mostly golden retriever.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alisha on September 07, 2017

Chaos and Supposition Richard Houston has written an amusing mystery with the best character being Fred, the golden retriever. While the story was enjoyable, Jake and Bonnie stumbled and bumbled through the tale to the very end. The villains were fairly obvious, and the characters a bit to shallow an......more

Goodreads review by Avah on November 08, 2017

“A Treasure to Die For” was an interesting story, littered with surprises and the unexpected. This was my first time reading a Richard Houston book, and the first I read of the “…. To Die For…” books and I found it to be an enjoyable read. I have two dogs myself and regularly look after my brothers......more

Goodreads review by Anita Savage on January 26, 2019

Top dog, Fred. I think that Fred is the smartest detective, bar none. The humans need to take lessons from him. This is the first book I have read in this series and may be my last.......more

Goodreads review by Allison on April 07, 2017

Great book as usual I don't often read books by any one author one right after the other but I never stopped loving these characters or got tired of reading about the area. It just got better with each book.......more

Goodreads review by Geri Denkewalter on January 22, 2019

This boo This book was poorly edited, and this was annoying and distracting. The mention of Appleton in the first chapter was confusing. The character development was good. I liked Fred and Bonnie. Jake was ok. I may read another book in this series but maybe not.......more

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