Karaoke Rap
by Laurence Gough
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Pub Date 29 Jul 2016 | Archive Date 5 Aug 2016
Description
Ozzie believes he’s planned the perfect crime…
Wealthy stock promoter Harold Wismer is having an affair.
Ozzie and his buddy will kidnap Harold as he leaves the woman’s apartment, and then demand a five-million-dollar ransom from Harold’s loving wife.
Harold is famous locally for his loud mouth, endless cigars, and banana-yellow suits – but everyone knows he can easily afford five million.
The original Trampoline Man, he’s suffered numerous multimillion-dollar losses playing the market, and always bounced back.
Unfortunately, Ozzie is unaware that ancient-but-still-sharp-toothed mobster Jake Cappalletti also has a lively pecuniary interest in Harold.
Ozzie’s young and quick. But Jake is old, and methodical.
Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker are assigned the task of investigating Harold’s sudden and violent disappearance.
When Willow’s son is critically wounded in a convenience-store holdup, the future of the case lies in jeopardy.
But Willows doesn’t want to abandon that case and as time goes on, he becomes more and more convinced that the two crimes are related.
The hunt is on in Karaoke Rap…
Praise for Laurance Gough
“With Laurence Gough and his series featuring Vancouver cops Jack Willows and Claire Parker — Karaoke Rap is the tenth — it’s fine to know you’re about to spend several hours in a world of delicious characterizations, fast, complex plots, and best and most important of all, writing as light and flaky as excellent pie crust.”— London Free Press
“Gough skilfully marries a tight plot with side-splittingly funny scenes and mordant turns of phrase” — Montreal Gazette
“Laurence Gough extends his successful Vancouver-based Parker and Willows series in Karaoke Rap … there’s enough action and excitement to cover a good part of the lower mainland.” — Toronto Star
Laurence Gough, who lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, has written ten Willows and Parker mysteries in addition to Karaoke Rap: The Goldfish Bowl, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada; Death on a No. 8 Hook; Hot Shots, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year; Serious Crimes; Accidental Deaths; Fall Down Easy, Killers; Heartbreaker; Memory Lane; and Shutterbug. His international thriller, Sandstorm, won the Author Award (fiction) from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1991.
Wealthy stock promoter Harold Wismer is having an affair.
Ozzie and his buddy will kidnap Harold as he leaves the woman’s apartment, and then demand a five-million-dollar ransom from Harold’s loving wife.
Harold is famous locally for his loud mouth, endless cigars, and banana-yellow suits – but everyone knows he can easily afford five million.
The original Trampoline Man, he’s suffered numerous multimillion-dollar losses playing the market, and always bounced back.
Unfortunately, Ozzie is unaware that ancient-but-still-sharp-toothed mobster Jake Cappalletti also has a lively pecuniary interest in Harold.
Ozzie’s young and quick. But Jake is old, and methodical.
Vancouver police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker are assigned the task of investigating Harold’s sudden and violent disappearance.
When Willow’s son is critically wounded in a convenience-store holdup, the future of the case lies in jeopardy.
But Willows doesn’t want to abandon that case and as time goes on, he becomes more and more convinced that the two crimes are related.
The hunt is on in Karaoke Rap…
Praise for Laurance Gough
“With Laurence Gough and his series featuring Vancouver cops Jack Willows and Claire Parker — Karaoke Rap is the tenth — it’s fine to know you’re about to spend several hours in a world of delicious characterizations, fast, complex plots, and best and most important of all, writing as light and flaky as excellent pie crust.”— London Free Press
“Gough skilfully marries a tight plot with side-splittingly funny scenes and mordant turns of phrase” — Montreal Gazette
“Laurence Gough extends his successful Vancouver-based Parker and Willows series in Karaoke Rap … there’s enough action and excitement to cover a good part of the lower mainland.” — Toronto Star
Laurence Gough, who lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, has written ten Willows and Parker mysteries in addition to Karaoke Rap: The Goldfish Bowl, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada; Death on a No. 8 Hook; Hot Shots, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year; Serious Crimes; Accidental Deaths; Fall Down Easy, Killers; Heartbreaker; Memory Lane; and Shutterbug. His international thriller, Sandstorm, won the Author Award (fiction) from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1991.
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