I wanted to like this book, really I did. Matt Coyle is a good guy with an enviable record for producing solid work and he deserves support. But the sad truth is there's very little to recommend here.

The best thing you can say about 'Odyssey's End' is that it's routine. It's a California book. Touchy-feely, sentimental, even mawkish. Yeah, I hated that.

Some parts didn't even rise to the level of routine. A lengthy description of the search of a house with detailed explanations of every piece of furniture in every room, but at the end of which nothing is found and nothing happened that advanced the narrative in any way? I call that padding. And then there was the grand finale of the book which went on and on and on. It was all utterly predictable, strictly paint-by-the-numbers stuff, verging on the trite. The only suspense was wondering whether it ever would end.

Rick Cahill Book 10

San Diego private investigator Rick Cahill's past comes back to haunt him when he's at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents' home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick's violent outbursts, brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE - and she'll never trust that he'll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring hos own kind of justice to an unjust world. Peter Stone, Rick's longtime enemy, offers Rick $50.000 to find a woman he claims can save his life with a bone marrow transplant. When what seems like a simple missing person case spirals out of control into cryptocurrency machinations, dead bodies and an out gunned face off, Rick is forced to battle evil from his past.

This story is action-packed, the pace is fast, and character driven. It has also been well-written and thought out. What should have been an easy case of a missing person quickly becomes a more complicated case with multiple death threats. I can't say too much more, as I would give away too many spoilers. This is one twisted and cleverly crafted story.

I would like to thank #NetGalley #OceanviewPublishing and the author #MattCoyle for my ARC of #OddysseysEnd in exchange for an honest review.

It’s hard not to like nor root for Rick Cahill. The man is resilient. The story is jam packed with hazardous escapades. It will definitely keep your interest. I cannot give any more details, as that would mean spoilers. Even though it looks like this is a final planned book in the Rick Cahill series, I think there will be another book coming from Matt Coyle. Thank you Netgalley and Oceanview Publishing for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. #Odyssey’sEnd, #OceanviewPublishing, #MattCoyle.

I had read a few other books in this series but definitely less than half and I feel like I know this series very well. The author tells a very readable story and the characters are very compelling. This book starts out with Rick Cahill at his lowest point. His wife and child have moved away, he is living with CTE and he is looking for money. A former enemy makes him an offer. Life changing money to find someone. Rick begrudgingly accepts and this sets forth the story. Lots of turns and the action keeps the pages turning. I really enjoyed this book and can't wait for the next one.

This is the 10th book in the Rick Cahill series. The story opens with Rick taking on a client that he wished to never see again. But Peter Stone is offering Rick $50,000 to find his daughter. Rick is ill and desperately wants to leave his daughter something to help secure her future. A future that Rick may not live to see.
As you would expect, it isn’t as easy as just tracking down Angela, and bringing her to Peter. Peter did not expose all his cards, and Rick once again, is battling for his life. I won’t say if Rick emerges victorious, but I will say that once again, he winds up caught in a situation that requires all his skills to just maybe emerge alive. Rick is a very complicated character, and his disease (CTE) is always like a ticking time bomb in the back of his mind. It was good to see how this ended, and I did a double take at the final scene.
If there is another book, I’ll be interested to see what this ending leads to. Another enjoyable read as Rick is one of my favorite characters.

Rick Cahill book # 10

San Diego PI Rick Cahill is in financial trouble, his wife and daughter left him after multiple fits of rage cause by CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) which is slowly destroying his brain. In desperation he accepts an offer from Peter Stone to find and protect his daughter, Angela Albright, from a Russian mobster Sergei Volkov, whose testimony had helped to convict him to a 15 years sentence. Sergei was about to be released.....S50, 000 to track Angela was hard to say no to....but his effort attracts attention....this case may be his last hoorah....

With its many references from the past to situate us this story is not hard to pick up at this point and reads well on its own.

The story is well plotted and written and of course Rick Cahill is a sympathetic character to root for. A simple case of missing person turns out to be more complicated by multiple death threats, very bad criminals, a brush with cryptocurrency, the witness protection program and the mighty FBI. Why not add clues that will lead him to a violent and bloody shootout by the end. Mr. Coyle did not forget to add all the suspense needed to make his story exciting. From slow moving action at first it turned out that the many twists and turns provided at the end certainly held my attention till I close the last page. Along the way, a lot of focus is set on Cahill’s personality, he broods a lot about his life; he misses his wife and daughter, and harps about it from the beginning till the end, it is a bit much...I wanted to tell him get a life Cahill...but who knows what the author has in store for
him next...

3.5 stars rounded up for a private eye story set in California. This is book 10 in the series, but the publishers' note says that they are designed to be read as stand alones. Rick Cahill is a private investigator whose past comes back in the form of a man who saved his life but also tried to kill him. Peter Stone tells Rick that he is dying of kidney disease and needs a transplant. His daughter could be a match, but she is estranged from him. Peter wants Rick to find his daughter and give him her address. Rick initially turns him down, but Stone offers him $50,000 and he agrees. There are complications, including crooked FBI agents and a killer who is released from prison because of the crooked FBI agents.
While they are described as stand alones, there was a great deal of back story from the previous books that would have helped me understand the dynamics of the characters.
#OdysseysEnd #NetGalley.
Thanks to Faith Matson at Oceanview Publishing for sending this eARC through NetGalley.

A great addition to an excellent series. Great characters, fast paced, action packed plot, and enough twists to keep me guessing to the end. The Rick Cahill series can all be read as stand alone books, but I highly recommend starting at the beginning with Yesterday's Echo and read them all in order. Highly recommended

Thanks to NetGalley and Oceanview Publishing for an advanced reader copy.

Matt Colyle’s latest ( and last?) in the saga of Rick Cahill is a private eye thriller where the action never stops. As usual, Cahill is in a world of hurt, physically, emotionally and professionally. Physically, he suffers from brain disorders which are the result of repeated and frequent getting too many blows to the head. His body is a map of wound scars and emotionally- his wife has taken their daughter back to her parents home because the bad guys often bring danger home to the family home.
In “ Odyssey’s End” that is exactly what happens. A very bad criminal from recent Rick’s past returns to hire Rick to find the crime lord’s adult daughter. The request is really a threat, so Rick reluctantly agrees. At the same time, Rick privately decides that this will be his last case. He has some idea what the danger awaits.Things rapidly “go cowboy” as Rick follows leads to the location of the daughter in hiding. He does find her and the case ends in a violent and bloody shootout.
Mr Coyle can certainly hold the reader’s attention. His prose is sparse. Cahill can brood about his life, but is realistic. His descriptions of locale puts the reader into the scene, but add to and do not get in the way of the flow of the plot.
“Odyssey’s End” is a book hard to put down , compelling to read and a fitting end to the series-maybe ( Coyle does drop a hint….)
Warnings to sensitive readers: a violent climax.

Excellent book with very believable detective work and action scenes. The characters are good as always, and the story is good as a standalone, even if it's better to have read the other books in the series.

(Odyssey's End is book number ten in Matt Coyle's Rick Cahill series, a series unfamiliar to me before I decided to read this volume. It is scheduled for publication on November 14, 2023.)

By this point in his career, Rick Cahill has been through life's wringer and he's very lucky to be alive, much less still out there battling the bad guys like he does. In addition to all of his old injuries, Cahill is also now facing the onset of a brain disease (CTE) that he recognizes is messing with his emotions, especially his temper. Much worse, he knows that the disease has the potential to kill him even while it steals his memories and personality. Cahill's wife recognizes the symptoms, too, and she and their young daughter have moved into the home of her parents where she feels the little girl will be better protected from exposure to Cahill's temper.

Cahill knows the clock is now ticking faster than ever for him and that he still has not banked enough to provide for his young daughter's future. He wants to keep working as a San Diego private investigator as long as he can, putting away as much as he can every step of the way. That's why when an old enemy of his approaches Cahill with what seems like a simple missing person's case (one that pays very well), Cahill decides to take the case despite all of his instincts telling him there has to be more to the case than he's being told.

Rick Cahill is a sympathetic character and it's difficult not to root for him; he's the obvious good guy in the novel. But the bulk of the story reads like a conventional thriller rather than one about a man suffering major disabilities, both mental and physical. The story is well plotted and written, and longtime readers of the series are likely to enjoy it very much. New readers like me, however, would have been better served, I think, by a deeper exploration of the brain disease Cahill is so concerned about. As it is, I did not feel nearly the sympathy for the character that I probably should have felt. And that's kind of a shame.

In “Odyssey’s End,” the stakes have never been higher for PI Rick Cahill. His brain disease is getting worse, his wife has left him and moved with their daughter to Santa Barbara to live with her parents and, his unrelenting need for justice continues to threaten his entire world.

When Peter Stone, a man who is supposed to be in witness protection appears on his doorstep to hire him, Rick knows trouble isn’t far behind, but a $50,000 payday is an offer Rick can’t refuse. In need of money and desperate to take care of his little girl, Krista, Rick takes the job. It sounds simple enough, find Peter Stone’s missing daughter. Except nothing is ever simple when it comes to Peter Stone.

After Stone reveals that Sergei Volkov, a Russian Mob kingpin and former associate of his, is being released from prison within days, Rick’s already rocky present and uncertain future goes from bad to worse. The reckoning for one of his long-buried misdeeds will soon put his life, and the lives of everyone he cares about, at risk.

“Odyssey’s End,” the tenth book in the Rick Cahill series, is another well-crafted, action-packed, edge-of-your-seat mystery by award-winning author, Matt Coyle. Many thanks to Oceanview Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review an advance reader’s copy of “Odyssey’s End.”

Odyssey’s End is the latest installment in the Rick Cahill, Private Investigator series and, if you haven’t read any of the previous novels, this one is certain to get you to read other books in this series. Without any spoilers, the book has a lot going on — FBI agents (real or impostors), kidney transplant, a missing person, cryptocurrency, the WITSEC program, a criminal’s early release from prison as well as several murders along the way.

This novel is recommended for readers who enjoy this genre and I thank NetGalley and Oceanview Publishing for the opportunity to read and review this book prior to publication and I sincerely hope this is not the “end” of Rick Cahill and his adventures.

In this book 10 of a great series, our favorite PI, Rick Cahill, has a lot on his mind, and he’s conflicted about where he should be dedicating himself as he deals with the physical manifestations of his recently diagnosed CTE, which is a progressive and fatal brain condition that has caused him significant issues. His business has been busy, if not fraught with problems that recently drove his wife, Leah, to move back to Santa Barbara with their toddler daughter.
As Rick decides to take just one last case, and really mainly for the money, and also to hopefully save a life, part of
him knows that no matter how the job goes, it’s harming his marriage, and he has to decide which is more important.
As he shares the case with his best friend and best PI partner, Moira, this case takes us on a roller coaster ride that
isn’t over until it’s clear Rick must give up this work, to save not just his family, but himself.
I cannot wait to read the next installment of this outstanding, fast paced, character driven series. This book reads well as a stand-alone, although it’s built on the previous books. I highly recommend the series, and particularly this book, which just might be my favorite. My thanks to Oceanview Publishing and NetGalley for providing the download copy in exchange for my honest opinion of this book.

Another exciting chapter in this series. I'm hoping to see more Rick Cahill in the future. That ending was a bit of a shock. I don't think Rick is destined for the peaceful life he wants. Its just not in him to look the other way. That's what makes him so appealing and addictive. Love this series!

Author Matt Coyle has given us an entire series of exciting stories about Rick Cahill, who now faces a terminal brain disease so everything he does takes on added dimension. Odyssey's End held my attention throughout.
Thanks NetGalley for the ARC.

Another great addition to the series. We once again find our hero challenged beyond what any normal mortal could withstand. With enough twists and turns to keep the reader guessing, this is definitely a thriller worth reading.

An enthralling, brilliantly written story by award-winning author Matt Coyle. Book 10 of the Rick Cahill series is a blast, full of explosive encounters as Rick tries to locate the daughter of his long-time enemy Peter Stone. Full of twists and turns as Rick endeavours to reunite with his estranged wife and secure a nest-egg for his daughter. An excellent novel well worthy of five stars.

I liked it, but I felt it sort of changed tone midway through. It started off rather noirish, old school, with a hard-boiled, tough guy hero, and by the end it felt like a more modern novel. In any case, it was pretty well written and kept my interest. Being the 10th novel in the series, I had a little catching up to do with the back-story. His physical condition turned into not playing much of a role at all.

Overall, pretty good.

I received a complimentary copy of the book from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Rick Cahill a private investigator in San Diego is feeling vulnerable due to a medical diagnosis. He and his wife have separated and he has a young daughter that he adores. He is concerned about providing for the girl's college education given his circumstances.

Enter a former associate that tried to kill him and later saved his life -- it is complicated. Anyway, this associate offers him big bucks to find a daughter than is now an adult and may hold a key to long term survival for the associate.

This is where the adventure begins for the PI. How to accomplish what needs to be done to earn the money but not get caught in the crossfire is the focus. What a conundrum for Cahill.

The book is about he pulls it off along with using his friends from his time as a cop. A great read that beings characters to live in a very real way.