A Mysterious Review of The Setup Man by T. T. Monday. A Johnny Adcock Mystery.
Review summary: The primary plot of this debut mystery is really rather thin, taking a very long time to get underway and wrapping up very quickly, probably too quickly, within the final pages. The author deserves credit for creating a different sort of PI, but character alone, even a major league baseball pitcher, does not sustain a series. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Setup Man
T. T. Monday
A Johnny Adcock Mystery
Doubleday (March 2014)
Publisher synopsis: Johnny Adcock is an aging Major League pitcher with the perfect retirement plan—he moonlights as a private investigator. Major League Baseball, as it turns out, is a prime source of employment for a philosophically inclined, discreet detective who has both the brains and the brawn to handle the unique problems of professional athletes. Those infamous baseball salaries attract gangsters, hustlers, and predators of every persuasion who prey on the outsized egos of primetime stars. When players, coaches, agents, or wives have a problem they can't make public, they call Johnny Adcock.
On the team bus after a game, teammate Frankie Herrera confides in Adcock that he has a “problem with his wife.” What sounds like the standard story of a pro athlete's marriage gone sour quickly turns into the most dangerous case of Adcock's second career when Frankie is killed in a car accident, leaving far too many questions unanswered.
The investigation takes Adcock into uncharted territory, drawing him into a deadly ring of murder, porn, Mexican cartels, and a conspiracy that threatens to become the biggest scandal to hit baseball since HGH and steroids.
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