When Katsuro Tanaka starts digging into the mysterious death of a
prominent California lawyer, bodies begin piling up. Even though it has
been two years since Tanaka left the police force, after the brutal
slaughter of his spouse, Patrick, he still feels responsible for
Patrick’s death, and suffers from bouts of depression and anxiety. His
involvement in this case threatens to derail his fragile recovery. As he
delves deeper into the lawyer’s death, tension escalates between him
and his handsome lover. Discouraged, he all but throws in the towel, but
when the antagonist threatens his young son, his raging anger spurs him
into action.
A Katsuro Tanaka mystery.
Review for Death Came Calling
by Donald Webb
Book provided by publisher for
honest review.
Death Came Calling by Donald
Webb is a M/M mystery/thriller. I normally can really get into a good mystery,
but this one for me came up lacking. First of all, I gave up at about 75% into
this book. There isn’t one specific thing I can put my finger on to explain why
the storyline didn’t work for me, more a bunch of small things that kept me
from connecting to the characters.
The book has a lot of
potential, but fell short. I never really connected with the MC a couple times
there was a “dang that sucks” moment, but despite the fact that he lost his
partner and was in grave danger I couldn’t get above luke warm for him. Also,
his name was a bit of a distraction, I kept calling him “Guy” in my head as I
read. I really wanted to love this book because I have found M/M to be my
newest favorite subgenre in romance and I was excited to see how that
translates to other genres.
Even though I didn’t finish the
book, I do recognize the author’s potential and can see what he was going for
with the book so it gets TWO stars from me instead of the standard DNF 1 Star.
Review by MJ for Crystal’s Many
Reviewers.
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