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# Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries Book 1)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Good story of insurance fraud and kidnapping
  

*by G***G on Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2021*

Roy Ballard is an insurance fraud videographer / investigator in Austin, Texas. He’s funny, flippant, cynical, and carries some criminal baggage of his own. Years back, he was arrested for assault (punching his old boss out for disrespectful comments about a woman). Right at the end of his probation, he was stopped for DWI, and the policeman discovered unprescribed pills in the car. So, Ballard has a record.His usual jobs are investigating people who file fraudulent claims for workman’s compensation. Like the ones who claim a back injury but can hoist 80-pound bags of cement at Home Depot. He has sufficient work to support himself and then some.He’s tracking and watching a restaurant dishwasher who supposedly hurt his wrist when he sees something, or someone, who shouldn’t be in the home. It’s a little girl, and Ballard is convinced she’s the little who was abducted less than a week ago. The case suddenly becomes personal; Ballard’s own daughter was abducted from the back seat of his car years before.The police investigating the kidnapping write Ballard off because of his own past. He gets help from a good friend, Mia the bartender, whom he persuades to becomes a business partner in his fraud investigations. And Jessica, a server at the restaurant where the suspect works, helps, too.“Gone the Next” is the first entry in the seven Roy Ballard mysteries by Ben Rehder, and it’s a gradually gripping mystery punctuated by Ballard’s wisecracks and general cynicism.In addition to the Roy Ballard stories, Redhder has also written 13 novels in the Blanco County series, one of which, “Buck Fever,” was a finalist for the Edgar Awards of the Mystery Writers of America. He’s also written two standalone novels, “The Chicken Hanger” and “The Driving Lesson.”“Gone the Next” is a story that also provides factual background on child abductions and kidnappings. And Rehder does a great job of keeping the reader guessing about what happened to Ballard’s own child as well as the case he’s investigating.

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    A Parent's Worst Nightmare
  

*by L***D on Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017*

Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Series Book One) by Ben Rehder, 286 pages, September 15 2012, Genre: Mystery/Suspense. Warning: May Contain Spoilers.Review by Leigh Holland.    Every year, about 200,000 children are abducted in America. Seventy-eight percent are abducted by the non-custodial parent. 58,000 children were abducted last year by people who were not family members. Of those, 40 percent were murdered last year. When a child goes missing, time is crucial to recovering the child safely. As a parent, I can attest that nothing in the world is more terrifying than the thought of losing your child. Jason Voorhees? No problem. Freddy Kruger? Piece of cake. Missing kid? Parents lose a tiny bit of our minds just thinking about the possibility. If you could see inside our souls at that moment, it’d look a lot like “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, a perpetual state of frozen terror.    In this first installment of the Roy Ballard series, we follow a wise-cracking insurance fraud videographer (Roy) as he sets out to prove worker’s compensation claimants aren’t injured and are defrauding the insurance companies that provide him with lucrative pay for his services. Roy is divorced. He had a daughter from that marriage named Hannah. We’ve all done the same thing at some point- turned away for a minute. But when we look back, our child is there. Roy lost Hannah in the park one day when he turned away for a minute. The nightmare still haunts him, having shaped him. One day as he does routine surveillance on a claimant, he thinks for a moment he glimpses a famous recently missing girl standing in the man’s doorway. He hesitates, he’s unsure if the child was the missing girl. He reports it to the local police who ignore it as having no real merit. Roy continues to try to work with the police as he and his newly acquired partner Mia discover more evidence. But the police don’t want to waste time or resources unless there’s enough evidence to think it’s definite. Finding no help from the cops, Roy and Mia decide to do a little surveillance and investigating of their own. A child’s life hangs in the balance. Roy is worried time is running out to find the girl.    I enjoyed Roy’s sarcastic one liners, his feelings as a defender of women and kids, and willingness to put himself at risk for others. When he does contemplate a wrong or stupid choice, he has Mia there to set him on the right path. Mia is supportive of Roy and considers him her best friend. She’s smart, good-looking, and outspoken. Roy and Mia make a good team. There was limited, appropriate cursing. I found no issues with the grammar or spelling. The plot had a couple of interesting twists. I had to keep reading to find out if they saved the little girl. Rehder does an excellent job of evoking every parent’s worst nightmare.    I really enjoyed this book. It was a page turner for me. I look forward to reading more of Ben Rehder’s series in the future. I’d recommend this to Mystery lovers who enjoy a witty, unconventional private investigator.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good reading
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020*

I quite enjoyed Gone the Next. The main characters are well developed, quirky and interesting. Roy Ballard, the protagonist, always has snappy and often surprising responses in the well-crafted dialogue. His new sidekick, Mia Madison, a hot ex-bartender, more than keeps up with his snarky remarks. I like that Roy's not just another detective or cop with all the resources available to such a person, but rather a mere insurance fraud investigator who stumbles into the middle of a missing child case.Having had his own daughter kidnapped right under his nose, he wants to do the right thing to help the police retrieve the missing girl, but they're rather slow to listen. Probably because they think he may just be trying to vindicate himself in some way for "letting" his own child get taken in the few seconds his back was turned. In the end, the head detective on the case and Roy forge a kind of grudging alliance. I foresee a tense and verbally abusive friendship growing between these two as the series rolls out. Had there been just a little more to the plot, it would have earned all 5 stars.While the plot seems just a tad thin, in my opinion, it does have some twists and turns to keep things buzzing. Maybe I just wanted more Roy Ballard/Mia Madison time. Strike that. I DO want more Roy Ballard/Mia Madison time. I look forward to the subsequent books where an ordinary, but pretty smart, Joe can be a real hero with a personality you can really dig.

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