Blood Spiral

The Mitch King Detective Series, Volume 1

By: Sam Waas

Narrated by: David Loving

Private investigator Mitchell King is involved with two difficult cases.

He fights to shield a female astronaut from a sexual harassment when he's asked to persuade the stalker to quit. Mitch then becomes personally involved with the sexy murder witness whom he's hired to protect. The investigations take Mitch from the refined engineering of space exploration to the squalor of biker bars and heroin shooting galleries. As he obsesses over his clients, Mitch stubbornly refuses to face his own shortcomings, and this threatens to drag him into a deadly encounter with a stone killer.

Can Mitch overcome his personal failings in time to save his clients?

©2015 Sam Waas (P)2017 Sam Waas

Double Cases with Expectations for Double Entertainment

Was this a devut novel from Sam Waas? It had qualities of a novice author (notice 'author', not 'writer').

It's well written (and decently delivered via audiobook) not yet stellar. This author should be watched; he's headed for great things, particularly with this detective series.

The main character and his immediate circle are fleshed out with vivid personalities.

The characters of his cases- not so much. They didn't pop into life, but were trying to.
Dialogues flow well, for the most part.
The interrogation scenes fell apart at the seams into a fragmented mess of a jigsaw puzzle box. It didn't feel credible; not even in a "it's entertainment i.e. tv or big screen scenes" sense.

This book has mature, brief sex scenes, similar to current cultural trends in the detective worlds.

This was also my first audio from Mr Loving. I think he will also grow stronger if he chooses to embark on this journey to narrate. He needs to pace a bit, as he sounds like he attempts to read the longer sentences in one breath. I've picked up another audio by him and I'm looking foward to his professional development.

A solid 4 stars with expectations for higher standards in any upcoming works.

I rate and review all audiobooks and ebooks.

I'm honoured I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

Funny & sarcastic crime noir/P.I. mystery

Mitch King, Private Investigator, is one very flawed, very human man. As he works a couple cases around Houston, we readers are given an all-access pass to his uncensored witty sarcasm, dark'n'dirty thoughts, and not-so-angelic proclivities. Now this is my kind of guy! (On paper, anyway.) Never short on action, this is a fantastic read for fans of crime noir/police procedurals/P. I. mysteries. I'm already itching to start the next installment. Narration was terrific, although I did decrease narration speed to 0.95%.

(I was provided a free copy of this audiobook by the narrator in exchange for my unbiased review. Many thanks to the narrator for this opportunity!)

Volume 1

What did you love best about Blood Spiral?

It has all the ingrediients of a good detecive stories. I will be looking out for the next book in the series .

So I'm Not The Only One

The beginning of the story has the main character, Mitch King, cruising down the road helping the singer on the radio belt out a few lines to a song. "I didn't get all the words right, but no harm. No abject lesson to learn, nothing to teach..." I have to admit the author had me from the beginning, how many times had I sang along to a song, only to be corrected about what was said.
The narrator has an odd speech, one that grows on you. I think the author and narrator are a great match. This was a free review copy, thanks for letting me listen.
Thanks to Audio Addict's, a group on Facebook, I have listened to a boatload of review copies in the last two months. Thanks to a great job by the narrator and author this may be the first series worth paying for. :)

Unusual detective

Any additional comments?

Very entertaining listen. Max us an odd and different detective. He works his way through his cases with odd background characters that add to the fun of the story. A different kind of character study. The narration adds depth to the story . I highly recommend it.I was voluntarily provided this review copy audiobook at no charge by the author, publisher and/or narrator.