The plot to this PI mystery is filled with twists and turns that keep you guessing and wondering if Colton will be able to protect his charge and his child while unraveling who's behind the threat to one of the areas richest families. I liked how this book was not predictable and took the plot places I'd hoped it wouldn't go. The book had the hard-edged feel of a PI novel without diving into language to convey the coarseness...
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Once again, Brandt Dodson serves up a mystery in the grand tradition. "The Root of All Evil" reunites readers with Colton Parker, the fearless man of few words, the former FBI agent turned private eye. This time, Parker is hired to track down a possible heir to a fortune. There are others who have much to gain--and lose--in this scenario. Blackmail, corruption, and biker gangs converge in this tense story, and Parker is just...
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Berger Hume is very ill and he has unfinished business. Years ago Berger had an affair which resulted in the birth of a child. Now he wants to make amends and possibly change his will. He hires Colton Parker, PI, to find his unknown son. Colton, who as usual, is struggling to keep his business afloat, knows finding the guy will be a long shot, but he needs the money. What should be a routine case turns downright nasty when...
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Have you ever picked up a book and within the first five pages you know it's a winner? That's the way it is with Brandt Dodson's Root of All Evil. Colton Parker was fired from the FBI, spent five years on the Chicago Police Department and now runs his own investigation firm. He has been described as "a brash, insolent, narrow-minded ex-cop" that has the "subtlety of a jackhammer in a funeral parlor." He is hired by Berger...
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Following on the heels of his success in Original Sin and Seventy-Times Seven, Brandt Dodson scores another hit with his third entry into the Colton Parker series, Root of All Evil. In Colton Parker, Dodson has found a twentieth century incarnation of the classic pavement-pounding gumshoe, who struggles not only with the difficulties of being a single parent, but also with his anger at God for taking his wife from him. Best...
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