But in October, he is releasing a different kind of book, a murder mystery and detective thriller set in Chicago, where he studied medicine and now lives. Over the years, Smith has also written a small mountain of books bristling with titles like Shred: The Revolutionary Diet, Blast the Sugar Out!, Clean and Lean, and, just this past spring, Mind over Weight.

In 2010, Barack Obama named Smith to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. “I love the pressure of live TV-you’re so alive there’s nothing like it,” he says. If you liked my review, please click “Helpful” on my Amazon review page.Instead he went to medical school-another longtime plan-and built a career (rather than a practice) as a television and radio medical correspondent and a nutrition expert for numerous networks and shows such as The View, VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club, and The Rachel Ray Show, which he currently co-hosts. Smith, The Unspoken (Seattle, WA: Thomas and Mercer, 2020). If Cayne’s sideline righting old wrongs turns out to be a feature of forthcoming novels, I may skip them. The one caveat I have about this book is the side plot involving a defrocked Catholic priest, which I thought was distracting and out of character for Ashe Cayne. It wasn’t a great story–on the level of, say, Michael Connelly–but it was a page-turner, which is my primary rule for mystery novels. On the whole, the main plot of this story worked for me. Will Cayne find the girl and catch the killer before it’s too late? But the young black victim is nephew of one of Chicago’s most notorious gang lords, and the uncle wants revenge. Along the way, a black acquaintance of the daughter is murdered, and Cayne believes the two cases are related. In this novel, Cayne is hired by the wife of one of Chicago’s wealthiest white businessmen to find their missing daughter. It features Ashe Cayne, a former Chicago police detective, and an honest one at that, now a private investigator. I have had good luck with other First Reads (especially Victoria Selman), and this novel looked interesting. I learned about The Unspoken through Amazon First Reads.

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