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A masterly noir debut that resonates with the tense atmosphere of corruption and betrayal of the deadly urban underworld
A murdered prostitute: Des McGinlay's first big case should be easy to resolve. But he's desperately struggling to pull his own life together even as he picks through the wreckage of others, and the case is not as simple as it first appears. There's Vin, who loved the executed woman, and who is now being set up as the fall guy for the murder; Bertha, the grieving mother, who wants Des for a lucrative future; and as a photographer, a dope head, and a right-wing politician are sucked into the vortex, the lowlife sharks are circling. Bright-hearted Pearl offers Des a glimmer of hard-won redemption, but at street and canal level, down in the pubs and blues parties of the slums, no one is playing by the rules.
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John Dalton is the author of The Concrete Sea.
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Des McGinlay is a down-on-his-luck PI from the gritty, industrial city of Birmingham, England. Lately, business has been poor, mostly because Des likes booze more than he should but also because he's suffering from being unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend. So when he is asked by Bertha Turton to investigate the suspicious death of her daughter, Claudette, Des is pleased to get off the self-pity slow train and onto the money-making express. Bertha's willingness to fill the empty side of Des' bed doesn't hurt. Des soon realizes that Claudette was murdered, and the killing was ordered by a rich but corrupt politico with lots of clout and the power to make Des' future miserable, or worse, nonexistent. Dalton's debut is a clever, atmospheric, quirky, violent thriller featuring an antihero who's quite unlike the typical private eye. This is definitely a writer to watch. Emily Melton
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- PublisherTindal st Pr Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0953589560
- ISBN 13 9780953589562
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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