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Hunt for a Phantom

A Mark Banning Mystery

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Hunt for a Phantom

By: Stephen L. Brooks
Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
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A Missing Girl Spells Danger for PI Mark Banning

For Baltimore detective Mark Banning it starts out as a typical missing persons case: a man seeks his help in finding his daughter who disappeared after meeting with a man she met online. Mark enlists the assistance of his police detective friend Ed Taylor in the case. When the search results in finding the dead bodies of the girl, the man she met online, and the father as well, it becomes much more than that. But there was another involved: a mysterious phantom witness who may have the answer to the entire mystery. But the closer Banning gets to learning the identity of the killer, the more he realizes that he himself is marked to become the next body to be found!

©2019 Stephen L. Brooks (P)2019 Stephen L. Brooks Detective Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators

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I loved the first book in this series and couldn't wait to read the next one. I was disappointed with parts of it.
The case was another sexual case, which I didn't mind. What really got me wanting to stop listening to the audiobook is when his secretary does something really stupid and she is meant to be intelligent. The other thing I did not like is the detective who is helping out has a partner who is trying to get in bed with him even though she knows he is married. He doesn't bother asking for another partner because he fears being made fun off and news getting to his wife. Yet it is better in his eyes to stick with temptation and hurt his wife later on if something does happen. Now nothing happens but it's left open. I loved him in the first book, but in this one I lost my respect for him and felt he was weak minded even when he said he wouldn't do anything because he didn't want to hurt his wife, he loved her. Yea right. Yes I know this is a fictional character, but he annoyed me through out the book.
If this doesn't bother you then you'll enjoy listening/reading the book.
Would I listen/read the next one in the series? Yes I would.

A Mark Banning Mystery

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This second in the series is different and I understand what other reviewers have said but I still found the book very entertaining, as long as you don't look too deeply into it. Unlike book 1 where Mark takes on a lost cause this is the more traditional search for a missing schoolgirl mystery. I liked the characters and Tim Lundeen did a grand job of bringing them all to life. *****
I was given a copy of the book by the publisher and leave this voluntary review.

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I listened to it all - but there are too many inconsistencies to describe. The plot tried hard to be intricate, but the ages of people kept shifting... for example, the girl is over 18 so the police say to wait 24 hours, but then there is a charge of statutory rape... and I cannot tell what era it is set in. We go from a secretary that pulls a laptop from a drawer to use a dial up modem to a PI with GPS phone trackers... Overall, I liked the characters and I liked the narrator. The whole thing though.. is in need of an editor. Warning for adult themes, (but nothing explicit). Warning for religious moralizing (sex before marriage). No swearing. I received a free copy of the audiobook in exchange for a review.

Needs a good edit

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