A Manuscript to Die for

Rating:
Summary: Even Your Detective Friends Will Like This One!
Review: "A Manuscript To Die For" by J. Patrick Quinn, has a first rate plot, a cast of first-rate characters and is a genuine 'can't-put-it-down-'till-it's-done' mystery. As a 21-year veteran in a major law-enforcement agency, I am critical of most detective novels. Actually, I am usually critical of true crime stories, with the serious mistakes made by the police as well as the basic stupidity of most criminals. "A Manuscript To Die For" is a cut above the others. I first downloaded the electronic version while waiting for a flight. It was so good that I had to have the hardcopy. With Quinn's real-life plot and true-to-life characters, you have a combination of dogged police work and clever criminals that threatens to end with the bad guys winning or else everyone who knows the criminal's deeds severely dead. Interestingly, the plot is very believable, based on the actuality of real world facts in spite of the author's disclaimer. I began to wonder; "Perhaps this is not a novel at all, but an expose` of reality?". Author Quinn adds an interesting touch to his mystery; a reader's feedback form. He invites comments from his readers, and this critic can tell you he answers his readers. Just try to get that from another author! If you're tired of the same old stories with police characters who obviously got their training watching old B-rated midnight cop-shows on T.V., if you've had your fill of characters so out of touch with reality that they detract from what might have been an acceptable story, if you're tired of worn-out plots that recycle the same old blood-and-guts trash and language that walks the edge of x-rated and fills the supermarket and bookstore shelves, if you enjoy reading a first-rate mystery that avoids raw sex and foul language, one you can recommend to your friends without having them offended by the contents, then readers you owe it to yourself: Get ahold of "A Manuscript To Die For", and enjoy this mystery with a real-world plot and characters you want to see come back in the next volume! (By the way, J.P. Quinn, when do we get the next Kevin Reilly mystery?)

Rating:
Summary: Even Your Detective Friends Will Like This One!
Review: "A Manuscript To Die For" by J. Patrick Quinn, has a first rate plot, a cast of first-rate characters and is a genuine 'can't-put-it-down-'till-it's-done' mystery. As a 21-year veteran in a major law-enforcement agency, I am critical of most detective novels. Actually, I am usually critical of true crime stories, with the serious mistakes made by the police as well as the basic stupidity of most criminals. "A Manuscript To Die For" is a cut above the others. I first downloaded the electronic version while waiting for a flight. It was so good that I had to have the hardcopy. With Quinn's real-life plot and true-to-life characters, you have a combination of dogged police work and clever criminals that threatens to end with the bad guys winning or else everyone who knows the criminal's deeds severely dead. Interestingly, the plot is very believable, based on the actuality of real world facts in spite of the author's disclaimer. I began to wonder; "Perhaps this is not a novel at all, but an expose` of reality?". Author Quinn adds an interesting touch to his mystery; a reader's feedback form. He invites comments from his readers, and this critic can tell you he answers his readers. Just try to get that from another author! If you're tired of the same old stories with police characters who obviously got their training watching old B-rated midnight cop-shows on T.V., if you've had your fill of characters so out of touch with reality that they detract from what might have been an acceptable story, if you're tired of worn-out plots that recycle the same old blood-and-guts trash and language that walks the edge of x-rated and fills the supermarket and bookstore shelves, if you enjoy reading a first-rate mystery that avoids raw sex and foul language, one you can recommend to your friends without having them offended by the contents, then readers you owe it to yourself: Get ahold of "A Manuscript To Die For", and enjoy this mystery with a real-world plot and characters you want to see come back in the next volume! (By the way, J.P. Quinn, when do we get the next Kevin Reilly mystery?)

Rating:
Summary: Quinn is a great story teller
Review: Patric Quinn's characters are three-dimensional. You want to know what is going to happen to them, so this makes the book a page-turner. "A Manuscript To Die For" is full of interesting twists. Quinn's story line takes us deeper and deeper into an underworld of unseen power and wealth. I hope to see more from Patric Quinn, who writes well above the 5th grade level of so many other suspense writers.

Rating:
Summary: Quinn is a great story teller
Review: Patric Quinn's characters are three-dimensional. You want to know what is going to happen to them, so this makes the book a page-turner. "A Manuscript To Die For" is full of interesting twists. Quinn's story line takes us deeper and deeper into an underworld of unseen power and wealth. I hope to see more from Patric Quinn, who writes well above the 5th grade level of so many other suspense writers.

Rating:
Summary: I like surprises
Review: When it comes to fiction, I want a good story, characters I can feel, action that makes my pulse quicken, and a plot that mystifies me a bit before it's resolved. Oh, and I like surprises, too.

Patric Quinn's book, A Manuscript to Die for, gives me all these with one little drawback. It leaves me wanting more! If you like in-your-face attitude and action, buy this book. If you like to read passages that make you say "whoa," buy this book. If you like to finish a book and set it down shaking your head in satisfied amusement, buy this book. I had great fun with it and will look forward to more work from Mr. Quinn.

Rating:
Summary: I like surprises
Review: When it comes to fiction, I want a good story, characters I can feel, action that makes my pulse quicken, and a plot that mystifies me a bit before it's resolved. Oh, and I like surprises, too.

Patric Quinn's book, A Manuscript to Die for, gives me all these with one little drawback. It leaves me wanting more! If you like in-your-face attitude and action, buy this book. If you like to read passages that make you say "whoa," buy this book. If you like to finish a book and set it down shaking your head in satisfied amusement, buy this book. I had great fun with it and will look forward to more work from Mr. Quinn.