The Ballad of J.D. Higgins

The Ballad of J.D. Higgins
Jeffery S. Miller
Publish America
ISBN: 1-4241-4171-0
Fiction, Suspense
Reviewed by RIP

J.D. starts out shanghaied and escaping making it back to land, deciding it was time to move on he finds a farm, gets hired on there and a place to stay. Now J.D. is not your typical wonderer, he has money to fall back on and has the mind to make things work for him, he ends up hiring others to do his job for him at a lower pay than he would make doing the job himself, freeing up himself. Finding himself bored he decides to look up an old friend, who by chance needs some help, and J.D. offers a helping hand. Once again on the road, he finds himself traveling to New Orleans to meet up with his friend Roy. The adventure had begun for J.D. getting his fortune told, getting invited to a party, where he could have turned out to be the sacrificial human to appease the peoples' god. All this on his first day in town and before his meeting up with Roy, J.D. returned to his motel room after finishing his report with the police. Finally getting hooked up with Roy he finds out that the case Roy is working on involves royalty and a missing daughter, stolen by a local pimp. Getting paid a lot of money to rescue the girl, they set about discovering more about the suspect and his gang.
Nicely written suspense mysteries here, more than one wrapped up together blending seamlessly and tying up any loose threads by the end of the story. It is a fairly fast pace story with enough action to hold the readers attention.