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Cops and Comix

di Rhys Ford

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A Murder and Mayhem ShortIt's all fun and games until someone leaves a dead body on the floor. Life for comic book store owner Alex Martin usually runs to the mundane. Sure, he has a regular influx of geeks and freaks, but for the most part, it's a familiar weird. That all changes when he opens up Planet X Comics one morning and finds a corpse in the middle of his shop. When Detective James Castillo is called in to investigate, Alex is torn between wanting to climb the man like a tree and giving him a wide berth. Luckily for Alex, the handsome detective is just as interested in him-as a suspect in the murder.… (altro)
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  Marlobo | Dec 24, 2022 |
A bit speedy since it is so short, but with that plunging depth Rhys Ford is so good at, guaranteeing I'd totally read more about this pair. :) ( )
  terriaminute | Dec 4, 2022 |
Cops and Comix is a short story, a half story, in the ‘Murder and Mayhem’ universe. The book stars Alex Martin, a comic book shop owner, and Detective James Castillo. This story is told in third person from both Alex and James’ povs.



Alex and James are side characters that appear in the books Murder and Mayhem, and Tramps and Thieves. I haven’t read those books yet, and I’m glad I read this book first. Cops and Comix is a fast read. The author does a good job of injecting quirky humor, which comes through at the very beginning when Alex finds a dead body.

It’s instant lust for Alex and James when they set eyes on each other. The relationship development is quite fast because of the short story format and there isn’t much depth or complication within the relationship. This book is just meant as a very brief introduction to two characters that appear in Books One and Two of this series. Alex and James seem suited to each other and I can see them as a convincing couple.

What I noticed right away with the writing, was how each paragraph created its own brief scene that fleshed out the events of the story. In other books I’ve read by this author, she had time to embellish what happened because the books were novel length. I liked how precise and succinct the author was with her writing. Despite the difference in writing styles between the short story and novels, I was still able to identify with the characters. There were no paragraph separators for pov changes mid-chapter, but I didn’t have any difficulty figuring out whose pov I was reading.

I have to mention there isn’t actually thirty-eight pages of ‘story’ material in this book. As is common with Dreamspinner publications, the last ten or so pages, advertises the author’s other books, and various books put out by other authors in the DSP stable. In reality, that still doesn’t include the pages, such as Table of Contents etc, at the beginning. I would say there’s about twenty pages of actual story in this book.

Overall, I enjoyed this cute, fast read and give Cops and Comix, 4 Stars. The one thing I dislike, and that’s for all the DSP books, is the amount of wasted pages DSP puts in for ads at the end of all the stories they publish. I find the ads annoy me more than they get me to buy any more books.

This ARC copy was given to me for an honest and unbiased opinion.


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A Murder and Mayhem ShortIt's all fun and games until someone leaves a dead body on the floor. Life for comic book store owner Alex Martin usually runs to the mundane. Sure, he has a regular influx of geeks and freaks, but for the most part, it's a familiar weird. That all changes when he opens up Planet X Comics one morning and finds a corpse in the middle of his shop. When Detective James Castillo is called in to investigate, Alex is torn between wanting to climb the man like a tree and giving him a wide berth. Luckily for Alex, the handsome detective is just as interested in him-as a suspect in the murder.

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