Title : A Body in a Bathhouse
Author : Brad Shreve
Series : A Mitch O’Reilly Mystery book one
Genre(s) : gay romance, crime/mystery/suspense
Release Date : March 14th 2019
Rating : 3/5
Buy link : Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon Universal Link
Nearly bankrupt, wise-cracking private investigator, Mitch O’Reilly, divides his time accepting any investigation gig that comes his way, while half-heartedly running his Eye Spy Supply shop in a forgotten Los Angeles strip mall,
Two tours in Afghanistan have left Mitch a broken man whose social life amounts to enduring his fun-loving sister, Josie, and hooking up with anonymous men he meets online. That may change when he gets his big break. A beloved comedy scriptwriter is murdered at a bathhouse, and Mitch is hired to prove the innocence of the club custodian. In addition, the flirtatious club manager, Trent Nakos, has Mitch reexamining his belief that there should be no emotional entanglements associated with sex.
While Mitch investigates the bathhouse murder, he learns there’s more to investigate than just a dead body. He must choose between continuing a case that could finally put him on the map or drop the case to protect the one he loves.
A crime mystery thriller is not my usual cup of tea in book genres, but I don’t know why the blurb of this book had caught my attention and raised a deep curiosity in me. And the next thing I know I signed for the arc of this book and I must preparing myself for any challenges this book gave me.
The first thing I notice when I read the first few chapters is…I have a bit struggling with the author's writing and the ‘humors’ he put in this thriller mystery. I was expecting the story will grab me in, but I find myself can’t connected with the main characters and the story quite well.
But even though I have some troubles connecting with the story, I must admit that there’s a part of me that still enjoying it. The guessing part and the way the author trying to blurring the suspect and drove the readers to multiple suspects are fun enough. Well at least it almost satisfied the Sherlock side in me.
Overall the book is interesting enough to follow, but the way the author ‘solved’ the mystery at nearly end of the book was far from what I expected and that quite a bummer for me.
The first thing I notice when I read the first few chapters is…I have a bit struggling with the author's writing and the ‘humors’ he put in this thriller mystery. I was expecting the story will grab me in, but I find myself can’t connected with the main characters and the story quite well.
But even though I have some troubles connecting with the story, I must admit that there’s a part of me that still enjoying it. The guessing part and the way the author trying to blurring the suspect and drove the readers to multiple suspects are fun enough. Well at least it almost satisfied the Sherlock side in me.
Overall the book is interesting enough to follow, but the way the author ‘solved’ the mystery at nearly end of the book was far from what I expected and that quite a bummer for me.
After growing up in Michigan and North Carolina, Brad Shreve criss-crossed the country while working in the hotel industry. In addition to working in hotels as a bellman, front desk clerk, and reservation call center director, he’s managed coffee houses, waited tables, sold potato chips off a truck and even hocked pre-burial funeral plans.
He credits Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak for developing his interest in art and storytelling. He’d spend hours on the floor sketching and painting and writing stories. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George gave him his first inklings that he’d like to be a novelist someday.
In addition to perpetually thinking of how to kill people, he’s a proud dad, a beach bum, and coffee house squatter.
He currently lives in the Los Angeles South Bay with his husband, Maurice.
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