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Award-winning Author R Weir lives in the Mile-High City with his family, where the Rocky Mountain High isn't always achieved with an herbal substance. When not glued to the computer, he relaxes by enjoying the outdoors and traveling in his motorhome. His writing delves into genres with gritty investigators exploring mystery, crime, suspense, and thrills, with involved plots and unexpected twists. Featuring former US Marshal Hunter Divine, a dire, determined man searching for salvation in his broken life. While private eye Jarvis Mann is tough and snarky, with as many faults as virtues. Characters exhibiting traces of his sense of humor, though he’s not nearly as tough and fearless. Though no evil stands a chance against his written word!
Reviewed by Jessyca Garcia for Readers' Favorite
The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card: A Jarvis Mann Detective Short Story by R. Weir is the first book in the Jarvis Mann Detective series. It also happens to be the shortest story in the series. This short story is more like an introduction to Detective Jarvis Mann. When Dennis Gash loses a valuable baseball card, he turns to Detective Jarvis Mann for help.
I admit I read the entire book in a Dick Tracy-like voice in my head. It was hard not to. Weir has made Detective Jarvis Mann into the typical broke detective with a sarcastic attitude. I happen to love this type of attitude in a detective. It is refreshing that Weir’s Detective Mann is not as serious as James Patterson’s Detective Alex Cross. However, I did think that The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card was a little too easy for Detective Mann. I would like to see him use his detective skills a little more or at least have a more difficult case. I do understand that this was just a short story to introduce Detective Mann to the world. I hope that in the other books in the series the cases are more complex.
So far, Weir has two more books out in the Jarvis Mann Detective series. Both of those books contain a longer story. I can see this series doing well and I look forward to reading both of them. If you like to read old fashioned detective tales, then this story is for you.
