The Hard Bounce

Executive Summary: A pretty good mystery that got a lot better around the halfway point. 3.5 stars.

Audiobook: Dylan Lynch does a good job. He speaks clearly and adds a little something with his Boston/Irish accent to give it a little more flavor. Audio is a good option here.

Full Review
One of my goals this year was to read a little less SFF and get a bit more variety. This book was recommended to me as a good mystery book. At first I was kind of underwhelmed by it, but I liked it a lot more as the book went on.

The main character is a bouncer. Somehow he gets hired to look for a missing girl. I still don't think that makes a whole lot of sense, although eventually I stopped caring about it too much.

I really liked meeting the various friends of our “Bouncer with a heart of gold” and learning how he came to meet them back when he was a ward of the state.

I really thought this story was going to go along in one direction, and I was starting to get bored by it. Thankfully the author went in a direction I wasn't really expecting and the story seemed to get better as it did.

All and all a pretty good, short mystery book that I'm glad I picked up.