Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife’s murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick … Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes and he grasps at a chance for redemption. But Rick’s attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he becomes a suspect in the murder and the target of a police manhunt. On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who’ll kill to keep their pasts buried. Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth about his own past and untangle his feeling for a woman he can never fully trust.
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“Yesterday’s Echo” by Matt Coyle is the first book in the Rick Cahill series. With “Lost Tomorrows,” book six in the series, arriving on December 3, 2019, this is an appropriate time to look back at how it all started. Rick Cahill arrived on the pages burdened with a traumatic past, an unstable present, and an uncertain future. Before readers even …
I haven’t read any old-school PI novels lately, the kind that star tough lonely men who fall for mysterious damaged women, so reading this excellent novel was an entertaining change of pace. (Actually, the hero isn’t a PI yet in this novel, he’s part owner of a restaurant, but he becomes a PI in book 2 of the series.) I felt like I was reading …
This story introduces the character Rick Cahill. Rick is working at the restaurant when he has to assist a lady who is drunk. Later, he becomes involved within another woman that was sitting at the bar and catches up with him when he was leaving. This individual was staying at a hotel and a body is discovered in her room the next morning. When …
If you like crime thrillers like those by Michael Connelly or Harlan Coben, you will enjoy Yesterday’s Echo. Rick Cahill, the main character has his flaws, his past, and inherited disgrace for his father who was kicked out of the La Jolla Police Department (LJPD). The book became a page turner, especially in the second 2/3 as the plot twists and …
Great story and the beginning of an even better series
Arrested 8 years ago for his wife’s murder, protagonist Rick Cahill , former cop, part-owner of a La Jolla restaurant, gets mixed up in a multi-layered sinister plot where everyone seems out to get him. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping all the good guys and bad guys straight and often ended up incorrect. It’s a fun and thrilling read wondering …
Great series. You need to read all of them!
Plot was convoluted, but a predictable ending and bad guy. Lots of loose ends, and unanswered questions. Characterization was flat and its difficult to like the protagonist.
Matt Coyle is one of the finest new crime writers in America, with characters that really jump off the page and come to life. Yesterday’s Echo was the first book of his that I read, and I’ve sped through several others since then. All are real page-turners, books you don’t want to put down but know you have to if you have to walk the dog at five …