The Night Watchman

 (Ray Quinn Series, Book 1)

Mark Mynheir

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Published By: Multnomah Books

Ray Quinn’s detective career was shattered, along with his pelvis and a few other body parts, thanks to the bullets that also took out his partner. The booze he pours down helps wash out some of the memories, but only long enough to help him sleep. Now, the most exciting thing in his life is the Sudoku puzzle he does each night at his job as a night watchman for an upscale condominium complex.

Ray figures life couldn’t be any more mundane and miserable–but he was wrong. An exotic dancer and a pastor turn up dead in one of the condo units where he works, an apparent murder-suicide. The pastor’s sister, Pam, can’t believe her brother would end his own life, let alone take another’s and begs Ray to help her restore her brother’s reputation.

Grudgingly and armed with a surly attitude and less-than-enthusiastic desire, Ray takes a look into the case. Before he knows what’s hit him, the case spirals out of control and gets more downright dirty and dangerous than he thought possible, the roots of which lie within his much-cherished Orlando Police Department.

Mark Mynheir’s The Night Watchman is the first in a new series and Mark’s true-life experiences in law enforcement shine through in this novel of Christian crime suspense. The language, actions and police procedures shown by the characters are so realistic you feel as though you are being led behind the scenes into the world that cops live each and every day. Also noteworthy is Mark’s remarkable ability to capture the very real emotional aspect of one’s faith and the turmoil we encounter in life that can lead us into and out of it.

There is a Reader’s Guide in the back of the book as a nice added feature.



I admire this talented author’s ability to write realistic crime fiction laced with Christian beliefs and would recommend this book to anyone looking for such.