Never Die on a Cold Night

A Story of Horrific Murders and Love.

By: JP Leonard

Narrated by: Melanie Francisco

In Chicago the year 1979, Detective David Neal and his partner were thrust into a series of dark, grisly murders. The darkest they and the people of Chicago, had ever seen. The deaths were so bizarre; the government got involved sending a beautiful female FBI agent, who seemed to have her own agenda. After seeing an older female at one of the crime scenes, David and David only saw her time and time again in the strangest places. While these things were going on, David began to have the craziest dreams and visions. His mind took him to places it had never gone before. He began to doubt his sanity. At that point, the only thing that kept him sane was the woman he fell in love with, Sadie.

As David ran around the car trying to make his way across the street, he slipped on the ice and fell into the melting snow. He must have hit his head on the cold hard ground beneath the snow. "Damn", David said feeling dazed yet scrambling to his feet. Shaking his head, he proceeded to the alley. The woman was still there hanging out of the window screaming and pointing to the ground. "There is a dog down there killing a man" she screamed. "Please help him, please help him somebody, please help him."

David didn’t see any traces of a dog as he entered the alley. What he did see was the most gruesome sight he'd ever encountered. Blood and pieces of human flesh were everywhere.

Never Die On A Cold Night is the first book I've written of a series which I will publish soon. I hope you find the novels as intriguing as it was for me to write them.

©2018 John H Powell Jr (P)2019 John H Powell Jr

An interesting story that feels incomplete...

An interesting installment of an ongoing saga.

NEVER DIE ON A COLD NIGHT by J.P. Leonard is a pretty fast paced novel. It follows a pair of detectives in 1979 Chicago looking into a series of brutal mutilation murders while someone or something begins to hunt them down. David, the main character, comes off as a likeable enough hero, though he seems to have an almost adolecent sensual lust for nearly every woman he comes in contact with. Throughout the story, he nearly has sex with multiple different women, even though he's falling for a wonderful woman who works at the station, and seems to have zero control over his sexual impulses. This threw me a bit, because it seemed very out of character for David, who otherwise is a righteous and chivilrous man. His partner Charlie and his wife are having problems, and while Charlie seems tortured a bit, his own infidelity didn't ring true for me at all, made all the more unbelievable as it was with a female witness whom he'd just met, and her own embrace of the forbidden relationship seemed forced.

There are several moments in the book when the dialogue seemed to fall flat, but for the most part it rang true, though the avoidance of profanity seemed to hamper the characters's speech at times. The pacing is fast and the violence brutal, but it seemed to move so fast that it was sometimes hard to keep up with just what was happening on the page.

All of this aside, NEVER DIE ON A COLD NIGHT is still a fun read and one I'd recommend people check out, though keep in mind you will be left hanging at the end. It LITERALLY ends with a "to be continued...", right in the midst of everything seeming to come together for a big reveal, one which we do not get in this book. If you want to know more, you'll have to move on to the sequel.

The narrator does her best, but just insn't suited to the story or characters. Not bad, just not the choice I'd have made.

This novel has some flaws and could have benefitted from some deeper editing, but the story and characters are likeable and the pacing helps with drawing you in throughout. I'm still not sure just what was happening, though I have some vague ideas. The book never tells us. I assume the follow-up novel will reveal things for us and tie the story together, but we'll have to wait and see. If you like police procedural stories with some brutal violence and a sense of supernatural goings on, you might want to give NEVER DIE ON A COLD NIGHT a chance.

I was given a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

This is the worst book I have ever read.

I don't even know where to begin with how terrible this book is. The performance is atrocious, almost as if someone were reading the back of a cereal box. At a certain point, I began to think that the narrator was intentionally making the reading terrible, as a way of insulting this terrible, terrible story. the author has no idea how fiction works. none of the characters have any depth, people take actions for no reason whatsoever, the author has little command of the English language, and in general this appears to be a 7th grade English class assignment. Do not waste your time reading or listening to this trash.