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Written on May 14, 2020
Will Rick figure out a way to use what Alex found out?
Rick and Alex Atwood
Rick Atwood is the father of Alex. While trying to run a B&B, they help solve murders, and try to keep his dating life on the down-low. Okay, so being the father of Alex is a fulltime job on top of his typical fulltime job of running bed and breakfast. See, Alex thinks of herself as a bit of a crime solver. She has been on the lucky side for the past three cases. The problem with this time is that the victim isn't a nice person, and Alex does some things she's not supposed to do. Rick is trying his hardest with parenting her, and who knows, maybe with luck, he will have a partner that can help in handling Alex and get her to be a kid again.
What I like about these two is that their father-daughter dynamic shows through the writing and how they interact with each other. I love the whole thing of having these two be sleuths together, and I like that the Chief of Police, who happens to be friends with Rick, calls Alex "Nancy Drew." It is cute, and I loved every minute of reading this book. I fell for the red herrings, though, and I maybe had a suspicion but couldn't figure out with why.
The Mystery
The mystery in this one is who could have killed the captain of the Treasure King. Well, this investigation leads to a whole lot of suspects and not a whole lot of concrete evidence. Put that with a deputy who isn't thrilled about working with the father-daughter duo makes it hard for them all. Everything just isn't going well for Rick.
Alex, because she wants to help and thinks she knows a way to do things without having to worry about police procedures despite idolizing the female deputy. To Rick wanting to keep Alex away from the ship and finding her with where she really shouldn't be. Then to Deputy Baker may not be staying for long because she doesn't think that Rick and Alex are using correct police procedural to working a case. And then finally to Chief of Police Adam Cunningham, who likes having Rick and Alex help but not at the cost of losing a great deputy. However, he isn't left to much of choice really between some key players that I can't say. Let's just say that this mystery turned sideways real fast in terms of trying to get solved quickly.
Five Stars
My first book of Mr. Ambrose's happens to be of Secrets of the Treasure King. Honestly, it was a great book to just jump right into without reading the first three books. Mr. Ambrose made it easy to do that, and he doesn't divulge what happened in the previous books. One thing that I like when authors don't do that, so it gives a new reader to them a chance to go back and read them without knowledge of what happened in the future installments. Rick and Alex are a cute father-daughter duo that is trying to get Alex to realize that all of her actions have consequences. I think this series shows a lot of promise, and I can't wait to read more. So, I am giving Secrets of the Treasure King by Terry Ambrose five stars and recommending it.
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