Book Review: Don’t Stand Still by Jack O. Daniel (The Colour Series Book 3)

Ruby Iris Williams, White's friend with benefit, staggers into his house with a critical gunshot wound to her stomach. She is barely clinging to life; fortunately, help arrives at his place in record time.

However, when the paramedics are loading her in the back of an ambulance, someone fires a shot at them, hitting one of the medics. The shooter then carnaps the ambulance with Ruby's injured body inside.

Why?

Does it have anything to do with Sullivan White's job as a Trident Officer, London Metropolitan Police anti-gun and gang crime unit?

Does it have to do with Ruby being the U.S. Cultural Attaché to G.B?

Cruelly, Ruby is gone before White could tell her what she truly means to him; it breaks him more than anything.

He keeps sane by focusing on seeking justice for her, but once he succeeds on his quest, will he be able to move forward?

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REVIEW

An emotional crime thriller Don’t Stand Still holds you in the palm of its hand gripping you gently. In the opening we mete Sullivan(Sully) White a London anti-gun and gang crime unit police officer who awaken to Ruby his “friend with benefits” collapsed on his bedroom floor. Recuse arrives, but then someone shoots at the paramedic and takes over the ambulance. White jumps into action and gets her body back as Ruby’s lasts words were autopsy and that she loved him. From the here it’s a sullen hunt to solve the mystery of Ruby’s killer and what her position as a U.S. Cultural Attache to Great Brittan has to do with it. While its book 3 in the Color Series, this book stands well on its own.

Daniel’s writing is realistic as we follow Sully in his mission to help find the woman he realizes he loved killer. While Don’t Stand Still is a crime thriller, it also is about how we can take life and people for granted. How fear and holding back can lead to regret. She was gone before he had the chance to say he loved her too. Daniels portrayal of Sully and his personal grief journey is flawless and so true to life. You can’t help but not feel for him and get drawn into the story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

From the pen of Jack O. Daniel....

I'm an observer of people and a story-teller. I sit and watch, and I listen. Listening not just to what's being said, but more importantly, to what's not being said. But life shouldn't just pass us by as we watch idly, so in every respect, I'm also a participant. Interacting with the characters who grace the pages of my books, although they were simply an amalgam of the various people I've come across That could be me silently watching you from across a crowded café as you sit drinking your coffee. Observing how you sniffed the aroma of the Arabica beans grounded and blended just for you by the barista behind the counter. Then, you drank it, closed your eyes to fully appreciate the tinge of bitterness in it. You smiled, pleased that it was made just right.

People make up the tapestry of life. So, you are my source of inspiration.

In the end, it's not about me - it's all about you. So, I prefer to remain anonymous.