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Published: Sep. 17, 2011
Words: 47658 (approximate)
Language: English
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A Brooklyn help desk guy wakes up from a bender and finds two dead people in his apartment. He manages to get rid of them without involving the cops. Then another corpse shows up. Then another. Finally he decides to get pro-active about the situation, and becomes involved with a bizarre real-estate scam, a beautiful psychiatrist who likes to play detective, and several other dangerous types.Extended description
Jim Berends is a help desk guy living in Brooklyn with a shaky past, few friends and a taste for drink. You might say he's in a bit of a rut.One morning he awakens from a bender to find two naked people in his bedroom. He has no idea how they got there, nor who murdered them.
Jim doesn't think the police will be sympathetic, so he calls an old friend for help, a lawyer with a way of handling difficulties. The bodies disappear, and Jim tries to forget it.... (Read more)
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Review by:
Chris Gerrib
on Dec. 09, 2011 :
Roy Edroso is a freelance writer in New York, and enjoys a modest amount of fame writing a left-leaning blog. Back in 2008, he got a deal to publish his first novel, the modern hardboiled Morgue for Whores. Alas, the publishing house he signed with went bankrupt, so he eventually decided to e-publish the book. Since I read his blog, I decided to buy the book.
The book is the story of Jim Berends, a Brooklyn-ite with a dead-end IT job, no serious relationships and a bit of a drinking problem. Well, Jim didn’t think he had a drinking problem – he got drunk, passed out and woke up the next day. Then Jim wakes up from a drunk with a pair of dead and naked bodies in his apartment. Jim decides to ditch the bodies instead of calling the police. This proves especially problematic when an additional body shows up.
The rest of the plot of Morgue for Whores is Jim’s quest to figure out where the bodies are coming from. This being a modern hardboiled novel, a fair amount of sex and violence are involved in the process. The book is by no means torture porn, but neither is it for younger or sensitive readers.
For the suitable audience, Morgue is an entertaining read. Edroso wrote the book in first person, which is deceptively difficult, but in this case works well. The narrator is a witty sort, while being an appropriate mixture of self-doubt and competence. The investigation of “who dumped the bodies,” which drives the book, proceeds at an appropriate pace – not to briskly (Berends, the investigator, is an amateur with a day job) but not too slowly. Several characters, including Berends’ apparently hyper-normal neighbors, were well-concealed surprises, which Edroso pulled off without making his narrator look stupid.
Apparently Edroso sprang for a good editor, as I found the technical aspects of the book solid. About the only thing I thought was a bit off was the actual explanation of why the bodies were showing up. That’s a quibble in an otherwise highly enjoyable book. I can wholeheartedly recommend Morgue for Whores as a book well worth reading
(reviewed long after purchase)
Review by:
Martin Langeland
on Nov. 27, 2011 :
Noir With ...
Review by Martin Langeland
Bruno Heinz Jaja's PunktContrapunct was introduced at the Hoffnung Interplanetary MusicFestival as a sort of kaffee with flagellated cream.
If it weren't a tautology, I might call Roy's book a Noir with … but you see the problem. Fortunately you can read this delightful yarn available at several locales [Itunes, Smashwords, B & N], cheap, and enjoy the whipping as a bystander. From one sentence to the next he will surprise you with wry laughter, or conjure a rueful sigh, at a sharpish observation, while he slips in the necessary info to keep the plot humming along and your ratiocinative powers nicely misdirected. This is that rarity, a book that has been intelligently edited. No wasted effort. No windmilling. Just graceful, skillful language deployment in service of the muse. The sex is nice too. I give it five stars only because a one to four star system permits no higher accolade.
--ml
(reviewed long after purchase)