Book Review: Pizza 911

Book: Pizza 911 (A Mister Jinnah Mystery book #3) by Donald J. Hauka

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: June 13, 2015

Publisher: Dundurn

Description:

The Tribune's editor-in-chief can kiss Hakeem Jinnah's ass goodbye! His bags are packed and he's off to Africa as king of his own Burger Palace. That is, until a charred, dismembered body is discovered in a pizza oven. The lure of one last front-page byline is too much for Jinnah to resist . . . even if it turns out to be his own obituary.

Pizza 911 puts the perpetually puffing, politically incorrect Jinnah on the trail of a vicious killer in a chase that takes him from Vancouver to Tanzania. Negotiating a deadly labyrinth of deceit, betrayal, and long-kept secrets, the neurotic newsman has to use his entire reporting repertoire — and then some — to get to the truth. Bikers, drugs lords, shadowy assassins, and a mysterious beautiful woman are all pieces in a complex puzzle that Jinnah must put together before it's too late for him, his family, and even his newspaper.

Based on the Gemini Award-nominated Movie of the Week, Pizza 911 delivers.


Rating: 5 stars

Review:

It's been a while since I've read a mystery so intriguing that I couldn't put it down. Hakeem Jinnah is a seasoned newspaper reporter who has had enough, he has plans to earn his fortune by going back home to open up a franchise of burger restaurants in Africa. But will this latest story have him changing his mind.

The mystery centers around a body found burning in the oven of a pizza restaurant, it had Jinnah not only trying to stay one step ahead of his former protégé and now TV Reporter Catlin Bishop but also keeping him and his family out of harms way from the bad guys.

The murder leads Jinnah to two rival groups of bikers, mysterious business deals and the victim's family secrets all while trying to keep his job at The Vancouver Tribune newspaper. He got some assistance from editor Nicole "Frosty" Frost, fellow reporter Ronald Sanderson and photojournalist Clint Eastward.

With his police connection, Sergeant Craig Graham losing his patience, Jinnah may be cut out of the investigation all together if he doesn't stop sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.

Pizza 911 was like a cross between The Daily Planet and Castle. It's full of drama, suspense and humor and with a fast-paced story, interesting mystery and characters, it was a fun read for me. Since this is the third book in the series it now has me interested in reading the other books to find out more about these characters and what other mysteries they stumble into.