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Gone The Next (Roy Ballard Mysteries) Paperback – September 25, 2012

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Meet Roy Ballard, freelance videographer with a knack for catching insurance cheats. He's working a routine case, complete with hours of tedious surveillance, when he sees something that shakes him to the core. There, with the subject, is a little blond girl wearing a pink top and denim shorts—the same outfit worn by Tracy Turner, a six-year-old abducted the day before. When the police are skeptical of Ballard's report—and with his history, who can blame them?—it's the beginning of the most important case of his life.
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  1. Book 1 of 9
    Roy Ballard Mysteries
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  3. Language
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  4. Publication date
    September 25, 2012
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1479345172
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 25, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479345172
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479345175
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
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Ben Rehder is an Edgar, Shamus, and Barry Award finalist, and he won the Texas Philosophical Society's Award of Merit in 2013.

Rehder's Blanco County comic mysteries have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream.

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The complete Ben Rehder bibliography includes:

Buck Fever

Bone Dry

Flat Crazy

Guilt Trip

Gun Shy

Holy Moly

The Chicken Hanger

The Driving Lesson

Gone The Next

Hog Heaven

Get Busy Dying

Stag Party

Bum Steer

If I Had A Nickel

Point Taken

Now You See Him

Last Laugh

A Tooth For A Tooth

Lefty Loosey

Shake And Bake

Free Ride

Better To Be Lucky

Boom Town

Another Man's Treasure

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L. Hampton
5.0 out of 5 stars Great characters and storyline
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. There are great characters and character development, storyline, and pace. There are a few surprises. It got a bit confusing in a couple of places but those are my only complaints. I will have to try other books by this author.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Parent's Worst Nightmare
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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.
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Josh L
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story with great characters. This was an easy, enjoyable, and quick read.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
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I read this book over 2 days. I could not put it down. Great story with great characters. I am now going to buy the while series.
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Ms. Poe
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
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While I wasn't crazy about Roy Ballard at the beginning of the book, he grew on me. Because this is the first in the series, the lack of character development doesn't really bother me. The plot and pacing are perfect and the tone is somewhat reminiscent of Raymond Chandler. I will definitely read more of this series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good story of insurance fraud and kidnapping
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2023
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This was a good book. Lots of humor and a!so excitement. It did get a little confusing towards the end of the story though.
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Annie56
5.0 out of 5 stars fast-paced and exciting
Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2023
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Great read, I am getting the next book in the series. No nasty details, but heartfelt and emotive all the same. Love Roy Ballard, funny and smart. Definitely a great series opener.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in Spain on July 12, 2021
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I gave this book 5 stars because it was tense a good sense of humour from Roy Ballard . Look forward to reading a other book by the same Author
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fast thriller. One of the best
Reviewed in India on December 24, 2019
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Ben Rehfer can weave an astounding novel with an intricate plot. You just cannot put it down. Technically perfect! Eagerly waiting to read another from Ben Rehder.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than most kindle crime / mysteries I read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2016
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This is a good crime thriller / mystery which is, (for a change), fairly well written. The dialogue and action grabs your attention quickly and there are some thoughtful insights into child abduction as well as some genuinely moving moments: I don't want to say more about the plot so as not spoil it. It's easy to read and the main characters are likeable, but the "hero" is not fleshed out as a real person in the way that great crime novellists manage to do. It's written with humour and definitely worth a read compared to most of the rubbish I read on my kindle. It's not up there with the great crime writers like James Lee Burke, James Ellroy, or Henning Mankell or Stieg Larsson, but it's a great few hours of reading. Would make a good movie, too.
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Tri Summers
5.0 out of 5 stars mal was anderes
Reviewed in Germany on March 11, 2017
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Eine sehr spannende Lektüre. Videograph Roy Ballard der Versichrungsbetrüger entlarven soll, gerät bei seiner Arbeit in einen Entführungsfall. Aufgrund seiner eigenen Vergangenheit hat er es mit der örtlichen Polizei sehr schwer und muss auf eigene Faust ermitteln. Nebenbei erhält man Einblicke in die Geschichte eines entführten Mädchens, was es damit auf sich hat soll hier nicht verraten werden. Man glaubt lange zu wissen wer das Kind hat und wer der Entführer ist und ich hatte schon mit einem langweiligen Ende gerechnet (wie es leider öfter der Fall ist), aber hier geht es am Ende actionreich zu und es ist spannend und überraschend bis zum Schluss.
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