Smalltime - Softcover

Raine, Jerry

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9781508507581: Smalltime
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1508507589 ISBN 13: 9781508507581
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Chris Small is an ordinary guy working in an off-licence in the London suburbs and living in the local YMCA. Both are just temporary measures, at least that's what he tells himself. Then one day Chris is mugged while taking the shop's money to the night-safe, and suddenly his world is turned upside down. As he trys to find out the identity of his attacker, Chris is drawn into some things he would normally leave alone, whilst trying to make up his mind about the attentions of three women.

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Review

Readers accustomed to the British country-house variety of murder mystery, go no further; Smalltime, a disturbing first novel by Jerry Raine, has none of the coziness of the dotty spinster detectives or decorous murder-by-poisoned-crumpets that are long associated with British crime stories. The world according to Raine is a universe of mean streets and petty crooks for whom violence comes as naturally as breathing.

Raine's main character is Chris, a guy with a record who lives at the Y and works in a liquor store. All too soon, his path intersects with that of Dashy, a mugger who injures him and Kevin, a thug who provokes him to violence. No doubt Miss Marple would be shocked, but fans of a more hard-boiled school of crime fiction will find Smalltime both well crafted and memorable.

From the Back Cover

Chris is an ordinary guy working in an off-licence in suburban England and living in the local YMCA. Both are just stop-gap measures...at least that's what he tells himself. Then one day Chris is mugged taking the shop's money to the bank, and his life is suddenly turned upside down. As he sets out to unravel the identity of his attacker, Chris is drawn into the dangerous and seedy underworld of suburban London, whilst at the same time trying to make up his mind about the attentions of three women.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1508507589
ISBN 13 
9781508507581
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
218
Rating
  • 3.20 out of 5 stars
    5 ratings by Goodreads

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