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Bad In Bardino
After private investigator Art Blakey is hired to find Gisela - the sister of femme fatale Inge Schwartz - dead bodies start to accumulate at an alarming pace.
When Art discovers a shocking link to the kidnapper, he gets tangled in a web of lies, deceit and passion. Soon, Art finds himself navigating a maze of ex-lovers, mafia gangsters, reporters and art dealers.
Can he rise to the occasion and find the damsel in distress... or is it already too late?
When Art discovers a shocking link to the kidnapper, he gets tangled in a web of lies, deceit and passion. Soon, Art finds himself navigating a maze of ex-lovers, mafia gangsters, reporters and art dealers.
Can he rise to the occasion and find the damsel in distress... or is it already too late?
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2016
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January 2, 2018
Good one.
Arthur Blakely is a private investigator hired by the beautiful Inge to help find her sister who is missing. Not the most original premise, but surprisingly this is a good story despite being pretty predictable most of the time. I think it's mostly due to Arthur the P.I. being such an interesting character that this story succeeds instead of failing.
Arthur Blakely is a private investigator hired by the beautiful Inge to help find her sister who is missing. Not the most original premise, but surprisingly this is a good story despite being pretty predictable most of the time. I think it's mostly due to Arthur the P.I. being such an interesting character that this story succeeds instead of failing.
November 1, 2016
Nick Sweet has written a real sweet book about a fictional tough but soft-hearted private investigator named Arthur Blakey, whose luck appears to be running out just as a miracle arrives in an unexpected form, every time! Fast paced and humorous yet dark, this book is a rival for Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye", which I also purchased. Narrated in the first person, "Bad in Bardino" takes us on a tour of the Spanish landscape and small villages, apparently well known to Mr. Sweet. Not everyone's cup of java, yet this fast-paced thriller held my interest well into the night as I flipped the pages of my Kindle.
I couldn't find a single cliche in the story, unusual in itself, and the book appears to be very well edited. There are lustful yet oddly loving interludes with a femme fatale, but the main focus of the book is the rough and tumble life of a private investigator told from the vantage point of the much maligned, somewhat weary, worldly-wise, but hopeful gumshoe himself. Add to this a detailed description of a famous painting that only an art lover could appreciate, knowledge of firearms, continental tastes in eating and drinking, reference to Etonian English gentlemen that sounds true, and well developed characterization of even minor thugs and criminals -- well done, Nick Sweet!
I couldn't find a single cliche in the story, unusual in itself, and the book appears to be very well edited. There are lustful yet oddly loving interludes with a femme fatale, but the main focus of the book is the rough and tumble life of a private investigator told from the vantage point of the much maligned, somewhat weary, worldly-wise, but hopeful gumshoe himself. Add to this a detailed description of a famous painting that only an art lover could appreciate, knowledge of firearms, continental tastes in eating and drinking, reference to Etonian English gentlemen that sounds true, and well developed characterization of even minor thugs and criminals -- well done, Nick Sweet!
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