By Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman has regularly confirmed himself to be a grasp of the offbeat and irreverent, and nonetheless manages to tug off a helluva whodunit within the strategy. Now the Kinkster can have met his fit during this beautifully crafted, fiendishly shrewdpermanent story of a assassin who's methodically killing off unsuspecting long island males. Gallingly, all clues element towards Kinky.
Greenwich Village is the surroundings for Ten Little New Yorkers, a story of homicide and mayhem as merely Friedman can warble it and that includes his ordinary suspects, together with Ratso -- Dr. Watson to Kinky's singular Sherlock Holmes. because the clues and our bodies pile up and the police officers strong-arm Kinky as their guy, he has to leap via hoops to discover the true killer, the entire whereas conserving his outrage and, in fact, his innocence. The assassin could be anyone just about Kinky, which ends up in a shocker of an finishing that may definitely take Kinky devotees thoroughly through surprise.
With a wink and a nod to Dame Agatha (as in Christie), and then all resemblance to these vintage mysteries fades, this is often one in every of Friedman's most intricate and impossible to resist page-turners but. Cunningly tentous problems with lifestyles, dying, guilt, innocence, love, loss, and the risk of fake confessions, this can be Kinky Friedman at his wily, suspenseful, and sacrilegious top.
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C’mon,” I said, leading him into my office suite, otherwise known as my dining room. “Have a seat,” I said, gesturing to the dining table. Howard started for a chair, and I screeched in dismay. “Hey! ” I scooped my cat Prozac off the chair Howard was about to sit in and tossed her in the kitchen. She glared at me balefully, then got revenge by leaping on top of the dryer, onto a pile of freshly folded laundry. I turned to Howard and smiled my most encouraging smile. “So. ” He blinked, as if hearing this news for the first time.
Finally, I flipped to the news—just in time to see a skinny guy with a bobbing Adam’s apple being taken into police custody. Wait a minute. I knew that skinny guy. It was Howard Murdoch. I sat up straight in bed. What the heck was Howard doing in police custody? The TV reporter obligingly filled me in. My mild-mannered client, a guy so timid he was probably afraid of Count Chocula, was being arrested for the grisly murder of Westside aerobics instructor Stacy Lawrence. ” I sat across from Howard in the visitors’ room of the county jail, a stark, fluorescent-lit cavern that smelled like old oatmeal.
1622 Bentley. ” Five minutes later, I was on the freeway, heading over to Westwood. I wanted to talk to Stacy’s neighbor in Apartment Seven, the lady who’d heard Howard screaming. If she heard Howard, maybe she’d heard something else, something that would point me in the direction of the true killer. Wait a minute, you’re probably asking yourself. I’m a freelance writer, right? I. Warshawski? That’s just what I was asking myself that day as I headed over to Stacy’s place. What on earth did I think I was doing?