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Private Detective Murders #6
The Boa Murders
One look at the two teenagers told me they were scared as much as humans can be and with good reason. They were wearing scarlet Boas, a symbol for a certain group of streetwalkers who were being murdered by a maniac the police hadn’t been able to nab. They introduced themselves as Doris and Maisie and asked me for help. I said I would. But how? The police had zero information on the killer. That meant I was on my own.
58 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 19, 2013
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November 30, 2014
When I first started reading The Boa Murders by Wayne Greenough, I had no clue it was part of a series. I hate that! No fault of the author, I take full responsibility for not doing my homework before picking up this book, but I hate to be engrossed in a story and somewhere along the reading I start to feel as though I'm missing something. A quick search on Amazon revealed that indeed, I had missed at least two books prior to this one.
Balls.
Thanet Blake decides to take on a case involving a serial killer who's hunting his prey among the city's red light district after two young ladies of the night seek him out. With no evidence and no help from local law enforcement, Blake uses his seedy contacts to try to track down the elusive killer.
The characters were the best part of the story, in my opinion. I found something about all of them that I liked, especially that of Blake. The story is told from his POV and he has quite the way of looking at things and sizing up people and situations.
The story, however, was a bit all over the place. The plot was good - if not a bit overdone- but somewhere in the telling, things started falling apart and I found myself re-reading earlier chapters to see if perhaps I had missed some telling detail.
Nonetheless, I was still able to enjoy this short story featuring a quite likable private eye - if your ideal of a private eye is one who is a womanizer, a drunkard and a bit of a prick. Fortunately, I like my good guys a little bit bad. With that said, I will be checking out the rest of the books in the Private Detective series.
Balls.
Thanet Blake decides to take on a case involving a serial killer who's hunting his prey among the city's red light district after two young ladies of the night seek him out. With no evidence and no help from local law enforcement, Blake uses his seedy contacts to try to track down the elusive killer.
The characters were the best part of the story, in my opinion. I found something about all of them that I liked, especially that of Blake. The story is told from his POV and he has quite the way of looking at things and sizing up people and situations.
The story, however, was a bit all over the place. The plot was good - if not a bit overdone- but somewhere in the telling, things started falling apart and I found myself re-reading earlier chapters to see if perhaps I had missed some telling detail.
Nonetheless, I was still able to enjoy this short story featuring a quite likable private eye - if your ideal of a private eye is one who is a womanizer, a drunkard and a bit of a prick. Fortunately, I like my good guys a little bit bad. With that said, I will be checking out the rest of the books in the Private Detective series.
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