Saturday, October 5, 2019

MR. SMITH AND THE ROACH by J.J. DiBenedetto


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?

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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:

1.      Dream Student

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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