A View to Die For

Name: A View to Die For
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard Houston
ISBN: 9781541471184

Author: Richard Houston

Series: To Die For #1

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2017

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Amateur Sleuth

Synopsis

The story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog.

Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o'clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for the murder of her fourth husband, and his father is near death. Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks, where they search for cold-blooded killers, a cache of gold coins buried by Jesse James, and the love of a beautiful nurse.

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 Carrie

A View to Die For by Richard Houston is the first book of the To Die For mystery series. This series is a bit of a cozy mystery in which the main character is not a detective or law enforcement but gets roped into helping out his family solve a crime anyway. Jacob Martin knew it was not good news whe......more

Goodreads review by G.G.

The dog on the cover is what prompted me to pick up this book. It had been quite a while since I had read a sleuth story. Yet, while I liked it, the blurb led me to believe the dog would do a lot of work, but aside from eating hamburgers, drinking beer, relieving himself, and being a good doggy, I c......more

Goodreads review by Henry

This is an exceptional murder mystery, with an unlikely hero, a canine sidekick, a sister as murder suspect, an assortment of odd characters, and much local color. Protagonist Jake Martin (nickname Porky) is an unemployed software engineer and McDonalds regular who gets by on odd jobs, drinks an eno......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Bleh. Don't believe all the 5 star reviews--this was average at best, and all the bathroom and McDonald's references annoyed me so much I am knocking off another star for that. I have never read a book where there were so many bathroom scenes! It added nothing to the story. And poor Fred the dog des......more