Greg Keen
Author of Soho Dead
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Classic private eye novel, with heavy drinking P. I. , lots of murders and thugs galore. Clean language and minimal violence for a recommendation to my 86 year old mom. I loved the British slang and setting, but just didn't fall head over heels for "Kenny." Good enough for a quick rainy day read, though.
Kenny Galbraith is a low level London skip tracer and is hired by a sleazy old acquaintance to find his daughter, but there are plenty of people who don't want him to find her or find out why she is missing. Clever plotting, interesting characters, not least Kenny and cracking humerous dialogue and observations made it a real pleasure to read and constantly put a smile on my face.
Kenny Gabriel is three years away from turning sixty, has forty-three quid in the bank and is occasionally employed to find people who would rather not be found. Broke, clientless and depressed, he knows things can’t get much worse. Then he’s summoned to the office of London media magnate Frank Parr, whose daughter, Harry, is missing—and there’s ten grand on the table to get her back.
It’s a lot of money, and God knows Kenny needs the cash. But he and Frank have a history he’d rather not revisit. Kenny worked for him in the seventies, when Frank was the head of a Soho magazine empire and owner of an infamous nightclub. And Kenny might still be working for Frank now—if he hadn’t witnessed his boss brutally torturing another employee.… (more)
It’s a lot of money, and God knows Kenny needs the cash. But he and Frank have a history he’d rather not revisit. Kenny worked for him in the seventies, when Frank was the head of a Soho magazine empire and owner of an infamous nightclub. And Kenny might still be working for Frank now—if he hadn’t witnessed his boss brutally torturing another employee.… (more)
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This is a British novel. There are a lot of British cultural references and British vocabulary and I am American so I think I lost some flavor. I did understand the plot, characters and so on and so forth. I liked the book and the story.