Moving Day Thriller - Suspense Novel for Mystery Lovers

I finished Moving Day by Jonathan Stone, and I have to say I thought it was just great. As an older guy, I have been looking for good novels about guys in my age range, and that was what attracted me to it. There was also the cleaver inciting incident: criminals pose as movers and steal a wealthy older couple’s entire house. I couldn't imagine how the protagonist could track down and get his stuff back. The plot is good. It is a thriller and, at least for me, it qualified as a page turner. I read it on my Kindle where there are no actual pages, but still, it was a page turner. But this book was more than a neat idea, or a thriller, and more than just a great book for senior guys like me to read. Moving Day is not only a good read; the writer has attacks of poetry from time to time. I think one of the things I liked most about this novel are the writer’s times when the narrative of a character’s thoughts becomes very, very close to being poetry. For example [the line breaks are mine turning the passage into found poetry]:a scared silencegrowing in toneenlarging somehowa silence sacred,but common, natural,a quiet silenceis preferable to talk.OR consider this short passage:I want everythingbecause I don’t knowwhat I want andno matter what I get,or what I takeit is never fulfilling.Does calm come fromclarity of thought, orthe simplicity ofhuman connections perhaps?The doubts and reflections,the ruminations said indulcet tonesthe times, the many timesof disconnectionsor irremediable separatenessfrom each other. . .Another aspect of the writing I found delightful was this play of story lines. There is some parallelism going on, where the store takes our protagonist full circle. The similarities of the old man’s current and childhood experiences develop a sort of synergy. When the protagonist was a 7 year old Jewish boy he was forced to hide from the Nazis and survive against all odds by luck and resolve. The author takes specific incidents from that 7 year old child and the lessons learned then provide the old man with experience and a tactical advantage over unscrupulous pudding headed adversaries that outnumber him.Jonathan Stone is gaining success and that is as it should be. When you have a talent and you have the determination to learn your craft, and if you can keep at it with very little positive feedback, the plight of most writers, and if you can get to the place where you tell a good story and your telling is not just good, but it raises the bar for readers and envious writers alike, well you have earned our attention and it should be rapt attention.