The Root of All Evil (Colton Parker Mystery Series, Book 3)

Have you ever picked up a book and within the first 5 pages you know it’s a winner? That’s the way it is with Brandt Dodson’s Root of All Evil.

Colton Parker was fired from the FBI, spent 5 years on the Chicago Police Department and now runs his own investigation firm. He has been described as “a brash, insolent, narrow-minded ex-cop” that has the “subtlety of a jackhammer in a funeral parlor.” He is hired by Berger Hume a multimillionaire who helped put Indianapolis on the map but is now a frail, dying man. Hume wants Parker to find out if a man, Miles Poole, is truly his son. If he is, he wants to meet Poole before he dies which according to doctors could be very soon.

All Parker has to do is find Poole, talk to him and show more convince him to have DNA testing. Piece of cake, right? No problem.

The hunt for Miles Poole alias ’Pork Chop’ is not exactly an easy one. Pork Chop is not exactly what you would call an upstanding pillar of the community and he has many enemies. Parker finds him but then there are lots of twists, turns and deaths along the way to confirming that Pork Chop is Berger Hume’s son.

This is an action-packed tale that includes bombs, shootings, back-stabbing, gangs and much more. As the investigation goes onward it becomes more and more complicated. At one point two officials stop Parker on a jog and ask for his private detective license. They inform him there was a “discrepancy” in the paperwork that was previously overlooked. This doesn’t stop Colton Parker from digging deeper and deeper to find out if Poole is truly Hume’s son and more. show less