Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Dead Ringer 
SERIES: Cold Case Psychic #6
AUTHOR: Pandora Pine
NARRATOR: Michael Pauley
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
RELEASE DATE: February 22, 2019
LENGTH: 7 hours, 32 minutes
BLURB:
Cold Case Detective and newlywed, Ronan O’Mara, is sitting on top of the world. When he returns to work after his honeymoon, he finds more waiting for him than a stack of dusty cold case files. Hidden in the mail on Ronan’s desk is a letter from Tank Hutchins, aka The Riverside Ripper. Convicted of murdering a woman three years ago, Tank claims he is innocent and asks Ronan and Tennyson for their help in proving who really committed the crime: his twin brother, Tim.
Psychic, Tennyson Grimm, is reluctant to meet with the convicted murderer who’s placed his faith in Ten’s gift. When Tennyson realizes Tank is innocent of the crime for which he’s serving twenty-five to life, he knows that he and Ronan have to do whatever it takes to set things right.
Together with Tank’s private investigator, the mysterious Jude Byrne, Ronan and Tennyson retrace the steps of the original investigation hoping to find the one piece of evidence that will get Tank’s conviction overturned and bring the real killer to light.
When new evidence leads them to believe there’s a larger conspiracy at play, will Tennyson and Ronan be able to find the killer before he returns to complete his diabolical plan?
REVIEW:
It all starts with a letter. A letter sent to Ronan from a man currently residing in a maximum security prison. He has been tried and convicted of a murder of a young woman a few years back. A murder he claims he did not commit. Ronan first dismisses the letter – after all doesn’t everyone proclaim they’re innocent? But he can’t get the letter out of his mind, and decides to go out to the prison to meet the man, Tank. Whilst talking to the man Ronan starts to believe his innocence, but in order for Tank to be innocent, the murder must have been committed by his identical twin. Ronan enlists Ten to help him free Tank and make the guilty party pay.
I’m a huge fan of this series, it really works for me. I love the characters, the family Ronan and Ten is creating, the friends. I love Greeley, watching him grow, no thrive, he really deserves all the happiness he can get. Then there is Kaye, Ten’s mother, whom we first met in the last book Dead to Me. Their relationship is still strained. How can it not be – she and his father did throw Ten out when he was eighteen. Still they are making progress, making an effort to put the past behind them and look forward, starting over. There’s no magic fix, they are not instantly close, but they are taking slow steps to get there.
Ronan and Ten, Ronan mostly, also “adopts” a new person into their circle. Fighting and clawing and with some head-butting to boot, still he became a part of the gang. I do believe Jude is here to stay and it will be interesting to see where it all goes from here as he adds another twist to it all.
Michael Pauley is made for this series! He captures the essence and feel of the plot and all the characters. He makes you feel what the characters feel, that intensity of the first fight (don’t worry it doesn’t last long), the love between Ronan and Ten. The mixed feelings they have towards Kaye, it’s all there in Pauley’s voice. He takes these characters and give them life, and makes you a part of theirs.
I had a blast listening to this book and can’t wait to find out what happens next. Something tells me the relaxing cruise won’t be as relaxing as they all hopes…
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