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A Tooth for a Tooth

Roy Ballard Mysteries, Book 5

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A Tooth for a Tooth

By: Ben Rehder
Narrated by: Johnny Peppers
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Lennox Armbruster was struck by a speeding vehicle - but was it an accident or an insurance scam gone wrong? Roy Ballard is hired to find out, and he soon learns there’s a third possibility: attempted murder. Joe Jankowski, the man who hit Armbruster, is a tough-talking player in the construction industry, and a feud with one of his former employees has shown that he has a temper to match his brash personality. When Roy and his partner Mia Madison attempt to dig deeper, they learn just how far Jankowski will go to shut down their investigation.

©2018 Ben Rehder (P)2018 Ben Rehder Detective Mystery Private Investigators Fiction

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I enjoyed this book, there is so much going on that you can't help but keep listening. I liked the characters, especially the mother of the murder victim who could so do Roy's job for him and needs her own series. With book five Roy has grown as a character and where as I found him annoying in book one, where as his sarcasm was just rude and Mia was the reason I kept listening, now I enjoy his friendly humorous banter. There wasn't any surprises (or twists) in the mystery and the baddie was who you suspect it was still a lot of fun getting there. Off to start the next book.
With Mia away on a girl's weekend Roy is asked to work on a case, a man who was struck by a car was definitely injured but was it an accident or a scam gone wrong? It's not long before Roy questions annoys somebody and he gets visited by some heavies. Then people start disappearing and the case takes on a life of its own and a lot more questions need asking, like where was he going when he was hit? Can Roy work out what is going on before he gets another visit? Or somebody else gets hurt?
I liked the narrator. He is a good choice for the characters in this series as his delivery is prefect.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Not just a tooth goes missing

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For Roy Ballard and Mia it's just another job and they start their investigation at a construction site and the person who owns it Jan Jankowski and he can be a nasty piece of work, cutting corners playing with peoples lives just to save a buck or two, so Lennox Armbruster thought he would show him a lesson but it didn't and he was hit with a speeding truck, was it an accident or foul play and that's what Lennox is claiming. Roy a legal videographer, and Mia do some work for an insurance company and this is one of their jobs, as listeners before wondered about the couple they are now engaged and hope to get married the following year, and the couple works best together, but on occasions, life throws them a curveball and this particular nasty case is just that, will it come back to haunt them? Roy and Mia are struggling with this case it seems that life just is not playing fair and it's upsetting the chemistry between them, can it be fixed? This is one of the best books and this one had me on the edge of my seat, and as ever Johnny Peppers did an outstanding job of the narration.

Life's a Bitch at Times

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This is another great story in the series, love the characters, good stories and great narrator.

Great series

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What a superb find … I love the Roy Ballard series. The characters are just the right balance of warm, quirky, clever and badass! A very enjoyable book

Great series

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This is probably the most character centric book of the series so far. A lot of it involves our detectives very personally. Still it has the action, drama and intrigue typical in the series.

A good listen, with an easy to listen to narrator that brings it to life.

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Very character centric

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