Mack’s Bar Mystery Series # 1, Murder on the Rocks

By: Allyson K. Abbott

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Mack's Bar is one of those nice, friendly places where everybody knows your name. That's great when someone's buying you a round, but not so hot when you find yourself atop a list of murder suspects - with your fingerprints on the bloody knife!

Mackenzie "Mack" Dalton is a Milwaukee bar owner with a nose for trouble - literally. A neurological glitch has left her with extra-perceptive senses. So when she stumbles upon a dead body in the alley behind the bar - the same spot where her own father was shot eight months earlier - she can tell right away there's something fishy in the air.

The lead detective thinks there's a link between the two deaths, and he'll need Mack's help to sniff out the murderer amid the crowd of eccentric regulars. But when all the evidence points to her as the most likely culprit, it could be an early last call for Mack - and celebratory cocktails for a killer.

©2013 Beth Amos (P)2018 Tantor

interesting and the reader is very good

I was almost put off by negative reviews.
And I did figure out the plot very early on. But i like this series. It's a good story telling, building the characters and bringing out their personalities. I like the reader. She's unique.

Great read

Although I have not followed the book series in order, I do enjoy each mystery

Easy listen/read

Enjoyed this book. It was a good listen while I was busy working around the house and doing some cooking.

Great story

Enjoy listening to the story and the list of characters kept me entertained for hours

What a ride

I love this and the twist and turns and I love that it wasn’t easy and that there was so much seemingly valuable noise to work through

I love this bar

Well written, I liked the unexpected superpower that becomes a police asset as she builds a family of friends from her neighborhood bar, lovable characters. Great narration, Nicole Poole is one of my favorites. I would like to hang out here and solve mysteries with them.

Fun story & awesome voices for the characters

I enjoy the reader’s voice choices for the characters. The story was fun and interesting.

very entertaining & is a mysteriously/thriller

like....psychic ability of bar owner, description of the various characters that are potential killers, and that it is not a spy mystery/thriller or space alien invasion genre,, etc. that I normally get.
The plot is quick paced, has lot's of info on the characters so you gotta pay attention to not miss clues. The narrator did a great job in reading of story/characters verbiage, etc.

Good, well crafted story

Great story, and a fun read that makes me want to read more in this series. The reader has a wide variety of voices used to great effect though I was increasingly annoyed by the heavy Irish accent of the detective, he of the Scottish name and “faint Scottish accent”. Clearly the reader just used the voice she has for the Irish character in the other main series she narrates. (Dannika Dark’s Crossbreed series). That said, she really has a remarkable voice range.

Cozy and tastes like chocolate

Well written and read, engaging and easy to follow, yet has some unexpected twists and not too predictable. But what gives this book its fifth star and both thumbs up are curious interwoven details, like the heroine’s neurological condition, and Al Capone mysteries, thrown in between. Plus the cocktail recipes of course. Very enjoyable. A little stretched ending reminds Nero Wolfe meditations on a case, if anything, and wraps up the story nicely.