Intent to Kill audiobook

A well-crafted plot that kept me turning the pages. It was very interesting how he brought in the character with Asperger’s syndrome. Aspiring baseball player Ryan James' wife Chelsea is killed in an automobile accident. He loses interest and desire and goes to Boston from Pawtucket, RI to become a sports radio talk show host. Trial attorney Emma, working for the Attorney General Office, continues plugging away at the accident even after the three-year anniversary. On the anniversary day, she gets a note on her car from an anonymous tipster saying he/she knows who ran Chelsea off the road. From there on, the pace of the novel gears up. A really good read. There's the involvement of Babes, Ryan's brother-in-law, the one with the Asperger's syndrome. wealthy Garrisen the owner of the Pawtucket Red Sox, Brandon Lomax, running for state senate, the developing relationship between Emma and Ryan and Vladimir, the Russian hit man.

A young man's life was on the cusp of breaking into major league baseball when his beloved wife was killed by a drunk driver. After three years of living in a numbed fog, things started happening that revealed what really happened to his wife. The story has a character with Asperger's Syndrome. The younger brother of the dead wife figures deeply into the plot and the author manages to portray a person with this disability as well as educate the reader while weaving a story. Excellent.

I found myself really wrapped up in this one. Ryan James, a minor league baseball player loses his wife to an auto accident. It wasn't an accident but finding the killer was made difficult due to false leads. It kept me guessing right up to the end. Enjoyable.

Excellent from beginning to end. I read it in two sittings.

This book was wicked good!!! The wife supposedly died in a hit & run accident, but it was more like murder.

This is the first book I have read by James Grippando and I really enjoyed this fast moving thriller. I think I was drawn to reading this because the main character in the book, Ryan James, was a minor league baseball player whose career was derailed after his wife is killed in an automobile accident. This left him alone with his young daughter and no answers to how or who was involved in the accident. It appears that his wife was run off the road by a drunk hit-and-run driver but is that what really happened? His wife's brother has Asperger's syndrome and he may have some answers but can they be relied on. On the 3-year anniversary of the accident, someone is providing some tips that the accident may not have been as it seems and that there was a witness to it. So who is this tipster and what does he know? Ryan, along with Emma Carlisle, the prosecutor on this cold case want to get to the bottom of what happened but getting there does not bode well for them as someone is trying to stop them and the story.This was really a good page-turner and as I said, I enjoyed it even more because of the tie to baseball which I generally enjoy reading about. I hadn't really heard of this author before but I will probably be reading more of him.

Good page turner

The main character is twenty-four-year-old Ryan James, a third baseman for the minor league for the Red Sox. He lives with his wife Chelsea and his two-year-old daughter Ainsley amidst dreams of one day making it to the big leagues with the Boston Red Sox. With a promise of possibly making it to the big league, Ryan urges his wife to make the last game of the season. Chelsea’s brother, nicknamed Babes, is a twenty-one-years-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, an autism-related disorder.Lots happen that day that makes Chelsea late and she ended up in a car accident on the way to the game. Chelsea dies in surgery but Ainsley is okay as she was strapped into a baby seat in the back seat. The story fast-forwards to the three-year anniversary of Chelsea's death... and Ryan is still struggling. He is part of a sports radio talk show... while the rest of his life consists of sleepless nights... loving his daughter... and always thinking of his deceased wife. Then email messages along with old newspapers with words and clues circled mysteriously and numbered... begin to be sent to Emma Carlisle the prosecutor who handled Chelsea's death case stating Chelsea's death was not an accident. There are a number of possible culprits and different scenarios are put forward for the reader. The pace is fast with lots of twists and turns. I forgot how much I enjoy this author.

Great story. I enjoyed the suspense and twists. The author did a great job of making the reader feel the characters.

Just finished James Grippando's "Inent to Kill" and my review is a bit mixed. Without spoilers, the book provides a solid plot for a thriller and reads quick with many page-turner chapter endings. This was my first time reading this author (although "Intent to Kill" was published in 2008). I'm wasn't too crazy about the character development. While one could empathize with the protagonist, Ryan, the surrounding characters lacked depth in my opinion. The book seemed heavy in details about the New England area encompassing Boston to Pawtucket to Providence, almost as homage to the region which seemed overkill to the story.All that being said, I would probably rate "Intent to Kill" 3.5 stars out of 5 . There was enough of a good story to entice me to give Mr. Grippando a second try so I will be on the lookout for another novel of his.

Ryan James is a minor league player set for the major leagues when on the last big game of the season his beloved wife gets killed by a drunk driver. Her death is the beginning of the end of Ryan's dreams. Ryan is now left with the loss of his wife but he now has to find a way to grieve why he is raising his six year old daughter. This is his journey thru the grief and his search to find the truth who killed Chelsea, his wife. Good page turner.

I needed to come back to a familiar writer after the last few books I had read. This is a stand-alone book and not a Jack Swyteck novel but it is a good read. Moves along fast and keeps you looking for more. By the last few chapters it was a predictable ending but it was enjoyable getting there. Overall a satisfying read.

I really enjoyed this book. Love the characters, love the storyline. A follow up book would be nice to see Ryan James while he’s playing professional baseball and with his new girlfriend, Emma. You have MIT, South Boston and the Irish mob, Boston Red Sox, Babes with his disability, The Italian mafia, a lot of different characters end it still made this a great book.

I don't know how he does it but Grippando creates twists in his novels that I never see coming and it makes for some spectacular mystery reading. This one wasn't a Swyteck novel, but while I missed the courtroom drama it was still a good read.