Off Season
by Clive Fleury
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Pub Date Feb 14 2024 | Archive Date Jun 18 2024
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Description
Detective Ryan navigates drug overdoses, a mysterious foot on the beach and a long-buried cold case.
Detective Ramesh Ryan's career with Sydney's prestigious Organized Crime Unit is on the up, until he loses a court case against the city's most powerful drug dealer. In disgrace, the detective is relocated to the tiny Australian beach town of Barton.
It is off-season in Barton-when its few criminals usually take a well-earned rest. But not this year! With the detective's arrival, the town suddenly becomes murder central. Two bodies are discovered in the space of days, both victims of drug overdoses. Then a mysterious foot is found washed up on the beach, and memories are awoken of an unsolved cold case of the teenager who disappeared fifteen years ago. Add to this a blossoming romance, along with a contract taken out on Ryan's life, and it's clear that the detective has jumped out of the Sydney frying pan into the Barton fire.
What follows is an action-packed adventure, thrilling at every turn-where truth and lies are almost impossible to separate, and unexpected twists are the order of the day.
Advance Praise
Raymond
Goodreads 5 star review Feb 4th
I really liked this book! I cannot think of one possible negative comment.
The protagonist Detective Ryan is likeable and very capable. On a personal basis, he has trouble finding a woman in his personal life and is under the constant watch of his over-concerned and overprotective mother Mumta. Mumta's need for frequent contact with Ryan made me laugh.
The bad guys were seriously bad. The main criminal Oscar Bruno is vicious and without any redeeming qualities. His closest associates were brutal. And the team of Micky and Stack were an interesting couple of villains. Stack is somewhat likable although vicious. Micky is an amusing big guy hopelessly in love with Stack who controls him.
The story itself was clever and well-written. I plan to look for another Ryan story without delay.
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781684921478 |
| PRICE | $6.49 (USD) |
| PAGES | 407 |
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Featured Reviews
L P, Reviewer
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book.
3.5 stars rounded up
I feel like the author used every idea he had for several books and consolidated them all into this one. There is A LOT going on here, and yet somehow it works. There are so many (too many) characters to track and I think it could have been a lot shorter and less repetitive. I thought I was near the end when I was only at 50%. However, short chapters kept the pace moving and I finished this is one day. A very promising start to what I hope will be a series. Detective Ryan is a fantastic character who would fit right in on the tv show Will Trent.
I hope this gets a better editing job before publication. The tremendous amount of grammatical errors and incorrect wording really distracted me.
Debbie B, Reviewer
Detective Ryan navigates drug overdoses, a mysterious foot on the beach and a long-buried cold case! Great read!! This book had a bit of everything! It had suspense, intrigue, action, murder, mystery, a great who done it and a few crazy twists and turns! The storyline was very interesting and had me glued to my kindle! I highly recommend reading this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for sharing this book with me!
Reviewer 780759
A page turner.
Off Season is a superb crime thriller… and whilst intricately plotted is reasonably easy to follow. Characters are interesting and whilst insight into character is not a big feature, they do hold your attention but the incredibly clever plot is definitely the feature here. It does feel like the scene has been set for much more exploration of the main character in #2, which I’m hoping will be forthcoming. Unfortunately the most amusing/terrifying baddies were killed off, including a ferret who loves nothing more than to ‘strap on the feedbag’
Hopefully this becomes a series
Jan T, Reviewer
organized-crime, drugs-issues, drug-trafficking, gangs, crime-thriller, NSW, Australia, lies, secrets, mistaken-identity, sociopath, murder, attempted-murder, meddling, relationships, relatives, law-enforcement, due-diligence, procedural, witness-protection*****
A couple of times I tried to put the book down because I was getting mired in the proliferation of characters. Bear in mind that a number of said characters seem like caricatures, thereby providing a good bit of snickering and snurfling and a rare guffaw or two. Like the baddie who dearly loved a pet weasel (illegal in Australia), or the antics of the overbearing meddling mother of the central character, Detective Ryan. Plenty of good investigating and some inspired plot twists and diversions. Loved it!
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