Reviews for Mad Mouse (A John Ceepak Mystery)

The average rating for Mad Mouse (A John Ceepak Mystery) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-22 00:00:00 Larry Stucki Rating: 3.75* of five The Publisher Says: It's almost Labor Day, and the end of summer could mean the end of someone's life in this exciting sequel to Chris Grabenstein's Tilt-a-Whirl. Young Danny Boyle, the part-time summer cop "down the shore" in Sea Haven, New Jersey, gets taken on a wild ride when he and his longtime beach buddies become the unwitting targets of a mad-man's twisted scheme for revenge. Fortunately, John Ceepak, the cop with a soldier's unshakeable code of honor, stays at Danny's side to help him negotiate the quick twists and turns that threaten to destroy his life, his friends, and everything about the world he loves. Whipping from the boardwalk to the beach and back again, Mad Mouse keeps zigging and zagging at a breakneck pace, all the way to the surprising finish. My Review: Second verse, same as the first/Coulda got better.... I enjoyed the time off from the troubling events I'm seeing develop at Goodreads. I hid myself in this enjoyable, light-weight read... ...and *whammo* got the boom lowered on me. Every one of us has done things that, had we known what we were doing at the time, would never have been put into action. Fortunately for most of us, the people we've hurt or mistreated don't come after us with sniper weapons in hand and murder at heart. Danny Boyle, the cool kid from school who never left the town he grew up in, has some of those and here they come with guns and murder all at the ready. Grabenstein's writing is smooth, very easy on the eyes and ears, and carefully crafted. He chooses the scenes of his story with a very practiced and able eye. He offers an interesting angle of view. But the impact of the story is never in doubt, since his main character is the one in the sniper's crosshairs. Readers of Tilt-A-Whirl are already invested in Danny, and those who start here are probably not that far behind. In the end, though, after going on the ride with Danny, it's the perp that leaves one almost breathless in horror, pity, fear, loathing. It's all so, so pointless. Except to the unhappy victim. And I don't, this time, mean Danny or his friends. Very affecting. What worked less well for me was the grafted-on feeling that the romance, which apparently blew up overnight, left me with; the Ceepak presence was deployed in an oddly spotty manner, feeling not exactly perfunctory but less personal than in the first book; and the new character Buzz was, well, here I can say it, perfunctory. Quick strokes, convenient presence, but not integral or maybe integrated, into the action. A series I will pursue, no doubt, and with pleasure. Just a few clouds in the sunshiney sky. Nothing to suggest even a rain shower, still less a storm. I like finding myself in Sea Haven, and that says a lot. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-04 00:00:00 Ernesto Rodriguez Review written April 13, 2017 4 Stars - Another goodfeel summer town mystery. I'm on this cozy journey and looking forward to get more Mad Mouse is the second in this cozy fun contemporary mystery serial. I truly enjoyed the first part Tilt-a-Whirl (3.8 stars) back in November last year. No romance stuff but a lot of fun and really great audiobook narrator. ~ $3 WSfV 8:10 hours audiobook narrated by Jeff Woodman ~ Well worth my time and coins. ********************************************** Sea Haven, New Jersey US « John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has joined the Sea Haven police department. The job offer came from an old Army buddy who hoped to give Ceepak at least a summer's worth of rest and relaxation... ~~ He is partnered with Danny Boyle, a 24-year-old part-time summer cop who doesn't carry a gun and only works with the police by day so he has enough pocket money left over to play with his beach buddies at night. » Still that first Ceepak summer and it was time for Danny to be a permanent "real" police. Unfortunately when this big police career event should be celebrated are Danny and his friends threatened by a mysterious paintball shooter. ... There is a new case to solve and a "bad guy" to look for in the (New Jersey US) summer paradise. ' Our hero Ceepak is admiringly good and doing everything properly right (following the Book) as usual and this MAN nowadays has two big admirers in me and young Danny. ********************************************** Good stuff for nice audiobook moments. It will be more Ceepak & Boyle adventures for me soonish. I LIKE - this cozy easy style and very sweet characters