{"id":13931,"date":"2020-07-07T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2020-07-07T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T22:18:03","slug":"dark-fissures-by-matt-coyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13931","title":{"rendered":"‘Dark Fissures,’ by Matt Coyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rick Cahill, <\/strong>the hero of Matt Coyle\u2019s downbeat detective series set in the San Diego area, is back in Dark Fissures<\/a><\/em>. I like Coyle\u2019s writing a lot, but this was going to be the series\u2019 last chance with me as a reader. Rick has such hard luck (except for mere survival), loses so many friends, makes so many mistakes and beats himself up so much for them, that I was about to give up on it. If Rick didn\u2019t catch a break in this book, I was going to stop reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m happy to report that (I hope this isn\u2019t too much of a spoiler) Rick actually has a little good fortune this time out. Won\u2019t tell you what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Dark Fissures<\/em> begins, Rick is about to lose his home. He isn\u2019t making enough money as a PI to meet his mortgage payments. Also, the chief of police, his personal enemy, is hinting that he has new evidence linking Rick to a murder. Problem is, Rick did commit the murder \u2013 in a good cause. But that won\u2019t earn him any slack from the cops or the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he gets a call from Brianne Colton, a local country singer. Brianne\u2019s ex-husband, a former Navy SEAL, was recently found hanged in his home, an apparent suicide. But Brianne believes he was murdered. Some things about it make no sense to her, especially the disappearance of his cell phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rick is dubious. Such doubts are common among the bereaved, and usually they\u2019re just wishful thinking. On top of that, Brianne has an ulterior motive. Her husband\u2019s life insurance policy won\u2019t pay off on suicide. But the more he asks questions, the more he starts to think Brianne might be right. He\u2019s getting hinky reactions from the guy\u2019s friends and co-workers when he questions them. Something\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s something wrong, too, about falling in love with your client, but that\u2019s just one mistake in a long list for Rick. He will get beaten up, wounded, and tortured before he finally fights his way through to the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark Fissures<\/em> was no sunshine story, but it came out a little more hopefully than the previous books. I liked it. Author Coyle has a continuing problem with homophone confusion, though. \u201cHeal\u201d for \u201cheel\u201d and \u201cswap\u201d for \u201cswab,\u201d that sort of thing. I wish he\u2019d get a better proofreader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Cahill, the hero of Matt Coyle\u2019s downbeat detective series set in the San Diego area, is back in Dark Fissures. I like Coyle\u2019s writing a lot, but this was going to be the series\u2019 last chance with me as a reader. Rick has such hard luck (except for mere survival), loses so many friends, … Continue reading ‘Dark Fissures,’ by Matt Coyle<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[652,1801,2374],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-dark-fissures","tag-matt-coyle","tag-rick-cahill"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}