Published: March 05, 2013
Words: 51,162 (approximate)
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781301017911

Short description

Six murders, a child porn ring, horse racing, drug smuggling, beautiful women, crooked police, crooked lawyers; it's all in a days work for Mavin Davis.

Extended description

Six murders, child porn, horse racing, drug smuggling, beautiful women, crooked police, crooked lawyers; it's all in a days work for Mavin Davis.

When a young boy is gruesomely murdered in an apparent gang killing Marvin Davis is hired by the boy's family to clear his name. That is the starting point for Marv's march into the world of porn, horse race fixing, police corruption and murder, all to the tune of his own drummer.

Tags

murder, texas, drugs, detective, horse racing, dallas, police corruption, chandler, hardboiled detective, noir mystery, hammett, child porn, george w parker, mavin davis

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Review by: Jim MacLachlan on April 24, 2013 :
The story was excellent, full of twists & turns in a great noir style. The hero is more of an 'everyman'. He's not brilliant nor do we get to see how tough he is in a fight, but he's honest & dogged. There were some excellent characters, although not all were fleshed out quite enough. That made some a bit more intriguing, but left me hanging on others. Hmmm... that pretty much sums up the novel. It's well on its way to being a 5 star book, but it wasn't quite consistent enough.

It didn't start out well. The first chapter was one of the weakest, but I kept reading & I'm glad I did. The story got stronger all the way and the end - well, I'm not sure if that's good or not, but I'm still thinking about it. Any book of this sort that leaves me pondering has a lot going for it.

Editors are expensive, but necessary. There were quite a few words that even a decent ARC reader would have picked up - 'to' instead of 'too' & such. The whole story felt as if it could have used a bit of evening out. Still, I enjoyed it & this is an author to watch. He has an excellent imagination.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

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