Down Solo by Earl Javorsky Book Review

We are pleased to announce the release of DOWN SOLO coming from
The Story Plant and author Earl Javorsky on December 9th, 2014.
Irreverent, circuitous, and surprisingly touching, DOWN SOLO
introduces a crisp new voice to suspense fiction.
Things haven't been going well for Charlie Miner. His work as a private
investigator involves him with an endless roster of shady characters. His
ex-wife is borderline crazy. And he hasn't been getting to spend
anywhere near enough time with his teenage daughter Mindy, the one
person in his life who truly matters to him.
When he wakes up on a slab in the morgue with a hole in his head,
though, things get even worse.
Just before the shooting, Charlie had been investigating a case involving
fraud, gold, religious zealots, and a gorgeous woman who seemed to be
at the center of everything. Even with a fatal bullet wound, Charlie can
connect the dots from the case to his attack. And when his daughter is
abducted by someone involved, the stakes get exponentially higher.
Charlie needs to find Mindy before the criminals do the same thing to
her that they did to him.
After that, maybe he'll try to figure out how he's walking around dead.

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Looking back on the process of writing this book makes me leery of the
word intention. Did I intend to write a basically old-school detective
story with a supernatural twist? No. But the idea of Charlie Miner's
consciousness existing as a thing in itself, and waking to look down at his
murdered body, emerged as a starting point. It may have typed itself into
existence. Then I thought perhaps I could unwind his investigation of
who killed him backwards, like in Christopher Nolan's Memento, but that
peaked at page 40, so I stopped writing for a year. Then the bigger story
clarified itself. My sense of agency is minimal, except for the choice of
words.




My review:

I just finished reading Down Solo and I really was interested from the very beginning. I liked the story line it was a little different than I usually read. Charlie Minor wakes up dead but that is not his biggest problem. His daughter has been kidnapped and the hunt is on find her  before she gets hurt. He is afraid that what the bad people did to him will do to her. This book had a new and different character type for me, and it also shows the love between father and daughter. I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.