Odyssey’s End is the tenth book in Matt C. Coyle’s Rick Cahill private investigator series. I am currently up-to-date on this series and have enjoyed following PI Rick Cahill’s life. Like the other books in the series, Odyssey’s End has enough back story sprinkled into the current world that it can easily be read as a stand-alone. In the ten books, Cahill has endured the death of his first wife, though he remains in poor standing with local law enforcement because at one time he was the primary suspect for her murder. He’s remarried to Leah, an interior designer, and now has a toddler daughter. He’s survived blindness and recently learned that he has CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) from multiple concussions during his years of playing sports and being beaten up as a private investigator and cop. Unable to handle his displays of rage, his wife has left him, taken their daughter, and returned to her family in Santa Barbara.
Cahill is a great wounded hero, and Coyle does a superb job of capturing Cahill’s efforts to deal with his chilling new diagnosis. Cahill—a moody PI, tough, hard-boiled, and unapologetic in the tradition of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. Odyssey’s End centers around Peter Stone, a frenemy of Cahill’s, who supposedly needs a kidney donation. He asks Cahill to track down his daughter for the purpose of seeing if she would be a match. Side plots include a cryptocurrency scandal, dirty FBI agents, and threats to Cahill’s family in Santa Barbara. As the title implies, Cahill’s odyssey as a private investigator may be ending, but are there future adventures for this PI as he battles his CTE?
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Odyssey’s End (Oceanview Publishing, November 14, 2023) is available through:
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You can read my reviews of Coyle’s Doomed Legacy here and Blind Vigil here.
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