You must be Mr.Cahill?

Rick used to be a cop, like his dad. And, like his dad, he was kicked out. He is not on good terms with the local force. In fact, the Their thinks him guilty of murder and is hoping very hard that he'll soon be able to prove it. Without any work, apart from a bit of part time bar work, he's constantly harrased by the police for minor traffic infringements and the bills are piling up. Looks like the bank will be foreclosing on his house pretty soon. Then he'll be homeless, too.
Then along comes a possible paying customer. Her husband died fairly recently and the hanging was labelled as a suicide. But his estranged wife is convinced that he was killed. Is this because the suicide clause will stop her from inheriting his very sizable life insurance unless the verdict is changed? Or was the man really murdered? Rick wants to believe the latter because, after all, he can't seem to get the attractive country singer wife out of his head and the man had been a cop in the same force now hasstling him: he'd believe almost anything of that bunch. But what was really intriguing was that the dead man, an ex SEAL, had phoned the FBI only days before he died.
Still undecided, he takes an advance on work for one week - he really does need that money badly, - and starts to investigate, fall for the ex wife and try to avoid being arrested for murder himself. All, more or less, in a days work for Rick Cahill.

An enjoyable story with good characterisation of Rick himself and interesting.confrontational moments with others. But the story just didn't quite work for this reader: it was both predictable and too muddied by the various other players. but with some nice touches of humour. The narration by Travis Baldree, , however, kept the momentum going, being read with well paced clarity and expression, the characters also voiced individually. A good performance.

Down on their luck, troubled P.I.s usually make great central characters, but poor old Rick just seemed to be forever looking over his shoulder, trying to hide away from something he might or might only be suspected of doing, harping on all the time but not letting on to his readers what actually happened. At first intriguing, for this reader it began to be tedious towards the latter part of the book. Would I read another one - yes, if voiced by the same narrator. But recommend it? I don't think so.

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