Rick Cantelli, Private Investigator: The Complete Series

Bear 322: Rereading all of his novels for the third or forth time. He is still my favorite author of all time. I miss his humor and sometime silliness in his writings. 😉💪🤠

United States on Jan 27, 2024

Mike Powell: As a first Rick Cantelli book, it contains enough material that a lesser writer would have stretched into 4 or 5 books.
This is a superb book full of well written characters with easily added back stories woven in. It rolls along so easily, with new characters being slotted in as easy as Lego bricks. Deft touches of humour run through the book making this a pleasurable read. It's a truly gripping read because you just want to keep going and easily earns 5 stars and thus is very highly recommended.
Now, if I could just get some of that Rick Cantelli mojo....

United Kingdom on Jan 21, 2023

Amazon Customer: Really good characters, fast paced action, easy to read, a good book.
Does have some repetition but that was minor

Australia on May 22, 2020

Kindle Customer: I enjoyed reading this first book in the series and meeting the characters. I enjoyed the bantering ,the action, as well as the crazy romance situations and I look forward to reading the next book.

Canada on Nov 23, 2018

Dave1940: This is a laugh out loud funny book about Rick Cantelli, a private eye, and his exploits with his partner, Lou. A hard book to put down as you enjoy the to and fro dialog between those he engages with. This a must read if you like comedy and action intertwined with each other. Actually read the first 3 books in the series, all of which were good but gave up on them when, in book 3, one of the plot lines started a discourse on teenage puppy love. Sorry, Mr. DeLeo, not interested.

Canada on Sep 28, 2018

Donald E. Morrison: From my experience it hard to find an author who brings the reader into their world and thoughts and holds them in the storyline told and makes the reader desire more of the story.

I found Deleo by chance; began reading his works and simply fell head over heels in the storylines he presented. Although it is "pulp fiction: According to the author; his stories bring you into the realization of what is happening, why it is happening and gives one a feeling that they are not alone in their thoughts of the world today. What can one say when within the storyline the concept of "recruiting persons to work within a business are found in the gray bar hotel"? Not many. No matter what; Deleo's works make you think, make you confront what you think and actually delve further into that which you have lived with forever..... as they say. I would say that Deleo's works are not for the faint of heart, but then again; I would say those doing what they are doing and thinking what they are thinking should either dive into his works or pass on them. Personally, I am so glad that I dove into the writings and become a great plebe of his works and wait with great expectations of his next sequel...

United States on Sep 04, 2018

chunky fox: great start to a series

United Kingdom on Aug 15, 2018

Rick Mitchell: This is a good solid PI novel. There are lots of different cases involved, so it never got stale. The writing is less than stellar, but it keeps the book moving.

There are pluses and minuses. The pluses are the following. The basic set-up of the main characters. Rick is the active partner. His partner in the agency is Lois who handled him when he was a Navy Seal. They play off each other well. The supporting cast is also good. There is his high school love interest who continually gets arrested and gets him in trouble. An actress who hires him for publicity, another who hires him for something else and a workout instructor who wants his body. The humor is a major plus.

The last two pluses lead to the minuses. All these young women are after Rick sexually despite his age. That's ok, but the theme got tired by the end of the book. The humor is very good and the wise-cracking way above par. So the minus? Isn't the worst joke-teller the one who tells you how funny he is? After every quip, pun, joke, barb or wise crack Rick is compelled to tell the reader how the person who heard it chortled, cracked-up, snorted, laughed, guffawed...well you get it. Just tell the joke and...

United States on Feb 11, 2014

claudette valliere: Rick Cantelli is fifty nine years old and an ex Navy SEAL. He was a SEAL thirty years ago but has never lost that edge that made him a great SEAL. That edge that has helped him through some very close encounters.

Rick and his partner Lois Madigan, his old CIA handler, now run a private detective agency.

Rick and Lois have been partners and best friends for years. Rick and Lois ran ops all over the world for the CIA. Rick would die for Lois and vice versa.

Lois recruited Rick after he served ten years as a SEAL. She and he were and still are hell on wheels.

Of course Lois is the biggest PITA who ever lived. She's constantly meddling in Ricks life.

Rick, even at fifty nine, has loads of ladies who would love to have a relationship with him. Loads of ladies that would love to end up in his bed. Much to Ricks horror they find him irresistable.

Of course many are younger than he is and Rick just won't go down that road. He feels like he could be their Father or Grandfather. Jeeze. Romantic entanglements are a tough row to hoe for Rick. Especially with Lois on his ass and some very young women trying to get in his bed. Good Grief.

This...

United States on Dec 16, 2013

BJ: This book reads like a series of short stories and the same scenes play over and over: bad guys burst in, Rick shoots them in the head. What's the purpose of the cafe or fitness center except as a way to stretch the story. The taunts from Lois to Rick are tiresome, not funny. And why is she so angry about his sex life?! Each time I saw her laugh called a "cackle" I wanted to gag. Same with the word "geezer". To expect us to suspend belief that a man approaching 60 has nubile women throwing themselves at him, not to mention that he still has the reflexes of a young man is ludicrous. Lois is also older and is unbelievably competent and violent. I had to force myself to finish it and the only reason I gave it 3 stars is in deference to the author's efforts and because I give 2 stars to books I really don't like and delete from my Kindle.

United States on Dec 01, 2013