Marty is at it again and must solve a mystery.
Chutes and Ladder by Marc Jedel is a riveting new cozy mystery. It isn't like any cozy that I have read, but it is entertaining.
We follow Marty who has helped the San Jose cops with his first mystery a month ago before finding the dead body of his friend in the woods when he’s supposed to be with his oldest niece’s Girl Scout troop. Oops!
What I like:
- Written in the first-person with Marty Golden, our sleuth, being the narrator. Marty is a pretty different character in the fact that he is an engineer and is a bit goofy.
- He works for a company that made a self-driving car service and tries to help out the police who are reluctant about that.
- The crazy Star Trek quotes used throughout the book.
- The other crazy thing is how Marty and the cop, Mace aka Sergeant Jackson, interact. It is a bit weirder than it is typically for the sleuth and the police officer. Then again this is an unusual book.
What I don’t like:
The one thing that I didn’t like was that Marty didn’t see the killer as a threat and someone that warranted more looking into. I know not really all that important, but I thought it was.
Four Star
Chutes and Ladder by Marc Jedel kept me entertained while reading it. I almost had the culprit until that curveball was thrown in. I am giving it a four-star rating and recommending it to anyone that likes cozy mysteries and tea too.
Other books in the Series:
Uncle and Ants
by Marc Jedel
Series: Silicon Valley Mystery #1
Published by BGM Press on October 11, 2018
Genres: Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, Humor
Pages: 315
Format: Paperback or Kindle
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Mysterious attacks. Mischievous nieces. Can a clueless uncle catch a tech-savvy killer … and be home before bedtime?
When a freak accident hospitalizes Marty Golden’s sister and condemns him to babysitter duty, he thinks it’s just another case of hardwired bad luck in Silicon Valley. Until a suspicious murder suggests the mishap was no mere coincidence. Something must be done.
Too bad this quirky, fashion-backward uncle isn’t exactly hero material.
Convinced his sister is in mortal danger, this amateur sleuth follows clues to an oddball array of suspects. Armed with nothing but an eye for detail and powers of self-delusion, Marty tangles with gangsters, a cantankerous school secretary, and a perplexing woman he can’t help but fall for. Glitches in his investigation seem like a piece of cake compared to dinner-prep and bedtime stories with his two precocious, pre-teen nieces.
Can Marty catch the culprit, save his sister, and get his life back in order before he gets unplugged?
Uncle and Ants is the first novel in a refreshingly modern mystery series set in Silicon Valley. If you like clever humor, sassy side characters, and average Joes facing extraordinary circumstances, then you’ll love this twisty mystery.
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