Had your fill of formulaic detective novels in which you can see the end coming as early as chapter four? Fed up of unbreakable hero cops who you know will survive whatever happens because the author’s already penning the next book in series?
There’s no such predictability in A Dead Chick And Some Dirty Tricks.
Right from the off, this fast-moving novel stakes its claim to being a totally different kind of detective story.
A magician, Dino Camballi, staggers from his apartment, his own ornate daggers protruding from his torso. Who wants him dead? Where has his wife, the chief suspect, gone? And what’s the deal with the plume of smoke the only witness reports seeing at the scene of the crime?
PC Jake Rodwell needs to find the answers.
Rodwell’s uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time to witness crime has seen him become the force’s top thief-taker. But he wants out of uniform and a move into a detective role.
His world-weary boss, Bannen, is loathed to lose him, and tries to pacify his top cop’s ambitions by assigning him the task of guarding the magician’s hospital bed. Rodwell reluctantly agrees.
While Camballi is recovering, his wife is found brutally murdered. Is Camballi victim or perpetrator of terrible crimes? What dark secret is the magician keeping hidden under his hospital duvet until he’s fit enough to unleash it? And why are the nursing staff at the hospital bending over backwards to win Camballi’s favour?
Only by uncovering the truth about the mysterious magician will Rodwell work out how to survive his encounter with Camballi and discover whether he is truly ready to make the leap to detective.
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