The last case I worked, I found a sixteen-year-old girl for her father; when she told me what he had done to her, I let her stay lost.
The case before that, I provided a husband with evidence of his wife’s infidelity; that night he beat her to death, then hanged himself in the marital bedroom.
Now I was calling on a man who by nightfall would be the prime suspect in two murder cases.
Maybe one of these days, I’d get a better class of client. Maybe some day. Maybe not today
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They say that the first lines of a piece of writing, are always the most difficult to set down on paper. It seems to me, that they may also be the most definitive, as I find they often set the scene in my mind, even before I have turned the first page. Those were some more ‘first lines’, which have done just that for me …
That, and a very intriguing synopsis, made this a book I didn’t want to pass on before reading…….
Declan Hughes establishes the credentials of his character Ed Loy PI, in this, the second book in the series.
Updated 22nd December 2010…..
A complete synopsis, brief author biography with links, plus my thoughts about the finished book, are available by clicking here
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