Title: MR. SMITH AND THE ROACH
Series: Mr. Smith and the Roach #1
Author: J.J. DiBenedetto
Narrator: Chris
Dale
Length: 6
hours 30 minutes
Audible
Release Date:
01.09.2019
Publisher: Writing Dreams
Publish Date: 11.08.2018
Category /Genre: Fantasy Suspense
Recommended
for: 14 + due to vocabulary
Listenability: OK or
NSFW
Received from: J.J. DiBenedetto (as an Audible gifted copy)
Goodreads link: Mr. Smith and the Roach
Date completed: 09.30.2019
Description from the publisher:
John Smith has a problem. He’s a
retired cop whose pension just got wiped out, and he doesn’t know why or how.
Now he needs to find a roommate to help pay the bills.
Sam has a problem. He’s a six-foot-tall talking cockroach and he doesn’t know who created him, or why, or how. Now he needs a place to live.
Thrown together as roommates and amateur detectives, Mr. Smith and the Roach realize their problems might be related.
But those problems are far more complicated than they imagined, and before all is said and done, they’ll run afoul of a Russian gangster, an imprisoned Mafia don, a crooked Wall Street banker, a mad scientist and, maybe worst of all, Mr. Smith’s baby sister.
Can they get to the bottom of an unbelievable plot before someone exterminates the Roach – and Mr. Smith – for good?
Sam has a problem. He’s a six-foot-tall talking cockroach and he doesn’t know who created him, or why, or how. Now he needs a place to live.
Thrown together as roommates and amateur detectives, Mr. Smith and the Roach realize their problems might be related.
But those problems are far more complicated than they imagined, and before all is said and done, they’ll run afoul of a Russian gangster, an imprisoned Mafia don, a crooked Wall Street banker, a mad scientist and, maybe worst of all, Mr. Smith’s baby sister.
Can they get to the bottom of an unbelievable plot before someone exterminates the Roach – and Mr. Smith – for good?
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MR. SMITH AND THE ROACH is a
stand-alone detective story, though it was left open enough that it could be
developed into a series. I hope Mr.
DiBenedetto would consider doing so.
Mr. Smith lives three floors down
from Jane Barnaby, but she is out of town and her sister is using the
apartment. After listening to this book,
I’m dying to jump back and know Jane better even though this is not a part of
her series.
Who would think that I would enjoy a
book with an insect as one of the main characters – especially a roach! – but I
absolutely loved this fun detective story
Narration: I don’t know accents
well enough to tell you where Chris Dale is from, but it certainly isn’t middle
of America. My guess would be somewhere
in England, but his is not one of the accents that I am accustom to
hearing. It was very nice to listen to
his voice. He gives excellent
pronunciation, enunciation, intonation, and characterization. His name on a book would be a reason to pick
it up.
Note: While I received this book as a gifted audiobook
copy, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Also from Author:
·
Finding Dori (Welcome to Romance #7)
·
Mr. Smith and the Roach
·
A Reel Christmas in Romance
(Christmas in Romance #4)
·
Twice Blessed (Blessings of Love #5)
The Dreams series:
2.
Dream Doctor
3.
Dream Child
4.
Dream Family
4.5 Betty & Howard’s Excellent Adventure
5.
Waking Dream
6.
Dream Reunion
7.
Dream Home
8.
Dream Vacation
9.
Fever Dream
10. Dream Wedding
Dream Fragments (twelve short stories)
Jane Barnaby series:
1.
Finders Keepers
2.
Losers Weepers
3.
Her Brother’s Keeper
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