Secrets of the Treasure King by Terry Ambrose

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Secrets of the Treasure King

by Terry Ambrose

Series: Seaside Cove Bed and Breakfast Mystery #4
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Published by Amazon Digital Services on April 29, 2020
Genres: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 261
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: Treasure Most Deadly, Lies, Spies, and the Baker's Surprise, Dead Men Need No Reservations, A Treasure to Die For, Clues in the Sand, The Secret Ingredient to Murder

The Seaside Cove rumor mill is buzzing about the captain of The Treasure King. He claims to know the location of the San Manuel, a four-hundred-year-old sunken Spanish galleon with a cargo worth millions. And now, he’s dead, the victim of a speargun attack.

When the police ask B&B owner Rick Atwood to consult in the investigation, he has mixed feelings. Consulting for the police is not the problem. He’s done it before. The problem is his eleven-year-old daughter, Alex.
Alex is fearless, precocious, and fueled by a strong sense of girl power. She’s also convinced the cops will never find the killer without her help, so she launches her own investigation—and quickly becomes a candidate for Seaside Cove’s youngest felon.

Now, unless Rick can solve the case with the clues Alex found illegally, his daughter might face charges of breaking-and-entering, the treasure of the San Manuel will be lost to pirates, and a killer could get away with murder.

Secrets of the Treasure King by Terry Ambrose is a pretty cool father-daughter duo of crime-solving.

Will Rick figure out a way to use what Alex found out?

Rick and Alex Atwood

Rick Atwood is the father of Alex. While trying to run a B&B, they help solve murders, and try to keep his dating life on the down-low. Okay, so being the father of Alex is a fulltime job on top of his typical fulltime job of running bed and breakfast. See, Alex thinks of herself as a bit of a crime solver. She has been on the lucky side for the past three cases. The problem with this time is that the victim isn’t a nice person, and Alex does some things she’s not supposed to do. Rick is trying his hardest with parenting her, and who knows, maybe with luck, he will have a partner that can help in handling Alex and get her to be a kid again.

What I like about these two is that their father-daughter dynamic shows through the writing and how they interact with each other. I love the whole thing of having these two be sleuths together, and I like that the Chief of Police, who happens to be friends with Rick, calls Alex “Nancy Drew.” It is cute, and I loved every minute of reading this book. I fell for the red herrings, though, and I  maybe had a suspicion but couldn’t figure out with why.

The Mystery

The mystery in this one is who could have killed the captain of the Treasure King. Well, this investigation leads to a whole lot of suspects and not a whole lot of concrete evidence. Put that with a deputy who isn’t thrilled about working with the father-daughter duo makes it hard for them all. Everything just isn’t going well for Rick.

Alex, because she wants to help and thinks she knows a way to do things without having to worry about police procedures despite idolizing the female deputy. To Rick wanting to keep Alex away from the ship and finding her with where she really shouldn’t be. Then to Deputy Baker may not be staying for long because she doesn’t think that Rick and Alex are using correct police procedural to working a case. And then finally to Chief of Police Adam Cunningham, who likes having Rick and Alex help but not at the cost of losing a great deputy. However, he isn’t left to much of choice really between some key players that I can’t say. Let’s just say that this mystery turned sideways real fast in terms of trying to get solved quickly.

Five Stars

My first book of Mr. Ambrose’s happens to be of Secrets of the Treasure King. Honestly, it was a great book to just jump right into without reading the first three books. Mr. Ambrose made it easy to do that, and he doesn’t divulge what happened in the previous books. One thing that I like when authors don’t do that, so it gives a new reader to them a chance to go back and read them without knowledge of what happened in the future installments. Rick and Alex are a cute father-daughter duo that is trying to get Alex to realize that all of her actions have consequences. I think this series shows a lot of promise, and I can’t wait to read more. So, I am giving Secrets of the Treasure King by Terry Ambrose five stars and recommending it.

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Reading this book contributed to these challenges:

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