Two Thrillers: Huron Breeze by Landon Beach & Righteous Prey by John Sandford

Today you get two thrillers for the price of one review! I’ve let a few reviews build up and these were quick reads. Plus I just talked about a Sandford book which covered a lot of Righteous Prey‘s ground, so, let’s jump right in

Huron Breeze

• By Landon Beach
• Sunrise-Side Mystery #1
• Stands alone
• 379 pages
• Published: Landon Beach Books, 2021
• Recommend: ⭐⭐⭐✨ for fans of mysteries
• Audiobook read by Scott Brick

Landon Beach has been around for a bit and I finally picked one up. I have seen reviewers stating that his first series, The Great Lakes Saga, is better to read first, but eh. This book follows veteran PI Obadiah Ben-David as he takes on author-in-hiding turned computer coder Rachel, who allegedly wants to try out PI work as a new career. Really….she needs inspiration because she’s trying to write her next blockbuster

It was fun to follow Ben-David and Rachel around as they tried to solve the mystery of why a man stumbled out of Lake Huron with a knife in his back. The characters are likeable and a bit over the top at times, cough Topaz. I didn’t like how Beach kept interrupting current events for Rachel to think about her book for long periods of time but otherwise it was a fairly decent mystery.

I’m stuck on three stars because of the back and forth pacing but would keep reading the series for sure, so, 3.5 stars

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Righteous Prey

• Author: John Sandford
• Series: Prey #32, Virgil Flowers #14
• Published: 2022, GP Putnam’s Sons
• Length: 416 pages
• Recommend: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ for fans of the series or anyone looking for a procedural / thriller

Feeding right off of my last Sandford book review, I think he is back on track with his banter and dialogue and action. Here we have a group of crazy, rich, Bitcoin investors, who are bored and giving murder a try. It sounds lame but they are targeting assholes who make the world a worse place, and donating huge sums of money to charities affected by the assholes they murder.

So…vigilantes? Crazy rich psychopaths? Someone with a PhD? Lucas gets involved and recruits Flowers again since one of the murders took place in Minnesota. Off they go looking for these murderers and the person running the show. It turns into a bit of a wild goose chase….but…

Once again there’s a lot of good detective work and action sprinkled in. Lucas himself is still taking a bit of a back seat while the FBI runs things, although he’s fuelling most of the discoveries that move the investigation forward

I liked the actual level of danger in this one and was pretty well riveted by the end. What was that!!! I’m screaming at Sandford willing to just … Ugh now I need to know how Lucas and Flowers are doing in the next book.

I still suspect that Sandford is setting one or both of them up for retirement. Flowers’ book was a hilarious topic of discussion throughout this one and Lucas just can’t keep going like this, can be?

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Have you read these? What did you think?

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Thanks for checking out my book review of Huron Breeze by Landon Beach and Righteous Prey by John Sandford. I bought & listened to HB and got the hardcover of RP when it released. As always, all opinions are my own♥️