A List to Die For
A British Detective Mystery
by Graham J. Burlem
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Pub Date 1 Jul 2017 | Archive Date 22 Aug 2017
Description
Jack Kreeger has one simple question, who kidnapped his son?
Jack would pay anything to get Tony free. And he can. Jack's rich. Very rich. He owns one of the last independent gambling casinos in the West End of London with a car park full of Rollers every night. Classy, but maybe not so clean. It's a world of glamorous corruption where sex is expensive and life is cheap. And the players think the rules simply don't apply.
Jack can pay, but whoever has Tony isn't after money.
They want a certain notebook created by Jack's deceased lifelong friend and business partner Ronnie Miller that details the drug dealing at the casino. The names of A-listers, politicians, members of the bench who get their scores and whores via a hoodlum who pimped his girls from the place.
The notebook also details Ronnie's connection with a drug-dealing blackmailer with a female enforcer who doesn't like men. If she wants information she hangs them naked upside by their ankles and hits them where it hurts with electric shocks.
And where is the notebook they so desperately want that they'd kidnap for. And even kill? And who is they? The pimp? The blackmailer?
Jack wants answers and Tony back. So he calls on Eddie Sutton. An ex-cop. Likeable, cynical, who knows his way around the London underworld. Who isn't above buying information or breaking the law or someone's legs for it. Or getting laid when the opportunity presents itself. Eddie's a quick study. But is he quick enough to find the notebook and save Tony Kreeger's life?
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | L15TT0D13F0R1 |
PRICE | £0.99 (GBP) |
Featured Reviews
This is not the sort of book I'd usually read - detective novels are not my genre - but I was tempted nonetheless. Graham Burlem's writing is fast, pithy, sometimes surprisingly witty. His novels career from one plot point to the next and are carefully plotted. They are very easy to read.
This was a fun read! A modern day, irreverent, womanizing gumshoe who tries to track down kidnap victim. A little predictable but with such likable characters and snappy dialogue that you don't really care. For fans of noir crime fiction this is a must.
A gritty British crime novel that has an ex Metropolitan Police Detective Constable, now a private enquiry agent, taking on a case for a Casino owner. The story unfolds nicely and is easy to follow. Some of the seamier side of the London social scene is put on display for you to ponder about. The ending will leave you wondering but that is up to you, the reader, to discover.
I have rated this book 4.5 stars and recommend it if you enjoy crime stories as only the British can do them.
I received an ARC from Netgalley for my unbiased review.