Hi all! I’m back today with my stop on the Death Before Coffee Book Tour. I am late posting, but better late than never I say! With thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours for allowing me to tag along and Level Best Books for gifted copy of the book to write my honest review.
By 2:27 on a Thursday afternoon, the one-legged man from Room 8 at 147 Loxitor Avenue had been beaten to death with a lead pipe. Twenty-eight minutes later, Detective Mike O’Shea is testifying in a stuffy courtroom, unaware that, within an hour, he will be standing in an alleyway littered with beer cans and condoms while his new partner uses a ballpoint pen to flick bugs off of a battered corpse.
When a rogue undercover copper leaves Mike balancing what is legal with what is right, an unlikely rapport develops between Mike and the lead homicide investigator, a cop’s cop in stilettos.
At the end of his seventy-two-hour shift, three men are dead, and Mike O’Shea is floating in and out of consciousness in an emergency room hallway, two women by his side.
In the second of the Mike O’Shea Series, Death Before Coffee weaves a homicide investigation through the life of an inner-city police detective intent on balancing his responsibilities as a son, brother, and newly single father with his sworn oath of duty and the promise he made himself to find the man who murdered a former partner.
Death before Coffee is the second book in the Mike O’Shea crime series. I had just finished the first book and opened this up straight away. After the ending of 10-33 Assist PC, I just had to keep on reading.
Desmond P. Ryan writes in such a way that the reader is truly immersed in Mike O’Shea’s world. He has moved department and reconnected with Ron. This time, it’s not just the crime we witness. it’s also the courtroom side, too.
It’s all so vividly real as the story unfolds. I really can tell Desmond P Ryan has lived this. I think it’s great when you are unable to tell where the truth ends and the fiction begins.
I read this just as fast as I read the first. It flows so smoothly, and the story is just intriguing and so addictive. I am hooked on the Mike O’Shea series, and I am gutted that I read them so fast. I can only hope that there are more books on the horizon. I will read all of them if there are! That’s a certainty!
Author Bio
Born and raised in Toronto, Desmond P. Ryan graduated from UofT and joined what was then the Toronto Police Force. He has been a front-line officer, a beat cop, a patrol sergeant, an instructor at the Toronto Police College, and a detective over the almost thirty years of his career
Whether as a beat cop or a plainclothes detective, Desmond dealt with good people who did bad things and bad people who followed their instincts. Now a retired detective, he writes crime fiction. Des is presently working on the Mike O’Shea Series and the Mary-Margaret Series, both published by Level Best Books.
Desmond lives in the Toronto neighbourhood known as Cabbagetown, where he can be seen wandering about, considering his next plot point or on his way to the pub.
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Thank you so much for being a part of the tour and for sharing this fab review x
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