Book Assessment: “The Abbey”

The Abbey By Chris Culver

Ash Rashid, former Indianapolis homicide detective now operating for the Indianapolis prosecutor’s office, has a new investigation on his hands that strikes a tiny too close to residence. Ash’s new investigation involves his niece’s murder, difficult by the reality that her body was discovered at the house of one particular of Indianapolis’s wealthiest households. The coroner referred to as it a drug overdose but none of it tends to make any sense to Ash.

I believed this book started out satisfactory and continued that way by way of the 1st half, and then events began acquiring uninteresting. The book lost momentum, as if the lack of some earlier character definition started haunting the author in his search to attempt to formulate a plausible beginning to an finish.

A few of the main characters:

• Olivia Rhodes, Detective Rashid’s partner, was one character that I believed could have been expanded. As the book progressed, her function seemed to diminish, only to re-emerge in a major way in the end
• Detective Rashid’s wife Hannah, and daughter Megan had been involved towards the finish of the book by getting victims themselves
• Nassir and Rena, Rashid’s sister and brother-in-law, and parents of Rachel, the victim
• Detective Mike Bowers, Rashid’s trusted partner at the finish
• Konstantin Bukoholov, Russian mob boss and owner of the “Lucky Bastard Saloon.” This fellow is a quite intriguing character, one particular of the books ideal
• Karen Rea, antagonist, has a plan to infect China with a deadly virus

Detective Ash Rashid’s murder investigation leads him on a twisting and turning adventure to locate his nieces murderer. Rashid’s a conflicted man, a man who is coping with how to greatest deal with the demands of the gun-toting violent nature of his job, law school at night, and his Muslim faith. Not having the complete cooperation of his own police department, and the seemingly obstructive behavior emanating from his supervisors, not to mention his partner Olivia Rhodes, he moves forward in his personal imbibing manner.

Even even though Detective Ash Rashid never drew a sober breath in this book, he plods forward in his try to unravel the mystery. A mystery that at some point involves Dr. Karen Rea and her nephew Azrael. His investigation becomes increasingly private if he does not solve it soon it threatens to involve his household.

I would rate this book 3/5 stars. The book has some good character formation in the starting, continuing via the halfway point, and then it starts to shed momentum. I believed the author was struggling in the last third of the book to find a plausible way to wrap it up. Nonetheless, I think he did a satisfactory job.

It was an entertaining read, not a real page-turner but not bad. Absolutely worth the cost. I would appear forward to reading an additional book by this author, particularly considering that I do like reading this genre. I was entertained by the concept of a former homicide detective operating for the Indianapolis prosecutor’s workplace investigating the death of his niece, and at the identical time juggling a bottle of booze, night school, and his Muslim faith. That is excellent stuff.

The Abbey: Reviewed by Raymond James