After a short break, I am back to reading Mac McKenzie. Mac is a former police officer who resigned after 11 years on the job after collecting a large amount of money on a bounty. Now, he is an ordinary citizen who just wants to help people. His best friend is Bobby Dunston, a current police officer.
I like Mac as he reminds me of Spenser from the Robert B. Parker books. Mac is smart, funny, and extremely confident in his problem solving abilities. He is also a big flirt, but also has a girlfriend, Nina.
It’s funny that he owns a mini-donut machine, a popcorn machine, and a cotton candy machine, and they all get used and mentioned quite frequently in the book.
For this one, he is helping the first lady of the state of Minnesota (whom he was friends with while they attended high school). She wanted to know who sent an email with some details on a possible crime involving her her husband (the current Governor). It was action packed, and I enjoyed the adventure. He always gets either beat up or shot at (as that is part of his job).
I have also been enjoying reading crime fiction books that take place where I currently live in Minnesota. John Sandford and Allen Eskens are two authors that I have devoured everything from them. I do have William Kent Kruegers’s Cork O’Connor books that I want to try again (I read the first one, and didn’t love it as much as the other ones). Any more MN ones I should look into?
