Incentive for Death

A Novel

By: James Spoonhour

Narrated by: James Romick

They all sold their life insurance policies to the same company—and now they’re all dead. Mac and Oliver are on the case.

On a beautiful spring morning in Washington, DC, a high-profile attorney is found dead in his office. McDermott “Mac” Burke and Oliver Shaw, homicide investigators for the Metropolitan Police Department, are called to investigate. There appear to be no signs of foul play, but there is also no obvious sign of a natural cause of death.

The detectives are perplexed, until the medical examiner notices a tiny pin prick on the lawyer’s neck and theorizes that the man was injected with succinylcholine—a.k.a. “sux”—which is a common horse tranquilizer that dissipates quickly in the body.

As Mac and Oliver begin to look further, they discover that the lawyer had sold his life insurance policy to a large viatical company. Then, they realize that more deaths under mysterious circumstances have occurred among those who’ve sold their policies to the same company.

©2023 James Spoonhour (P)2023 James Spoonhour

Good read

This is a good read and a windy mystery. Good narration. I received a free copy and left my honest review

Enjoyed

Great story and character development. It was very well developed and story kept you interested .

It was ok

The narrator made me CRAZY. He said "a" after random words in nearly every sentence. Like an Italian immigrant speaking English, but not in a cute way. I had to listen while there was background noise to help drown in out.
The story was low key and for having been recently written, was hard to believe a lot of the naivete of electronics available.
If you want a "crime" book with no blood and guts, sex or cussing, this is good.

Poor writing.

Story was slow and lame. Writing was bad. Narrator was terrible. I would not recommend.