He’s a good man, and it’s easy to imagine him at the scene of the crime, gun under his coat, police lights swirling in the dark. He’s everything you might want in your 90s-era rumpled middle-aged cop. Our hero and narrator is Detective Cliff Janeway. Then I’ll tell you who.Īre you even a crime novel fan if you’re not snared by a hook like that? Who would murder a harmless man like that? I’ll tell you why. He had no close friends, but no enemies either… No one could think of a reason why anyone would kill Bobby. He had no relatives, no next of kin to notify.
He was a gentle man, quiet, a human mystery.
Unsurprisingly, it can be a fairly bleak and lonely life.Īnd then we hear from the narrator directly: This is the story of a dead man, how he got that way, and what happened to some other people because of his death. This novel, the first in the series, is set in the early 1990s and begins with an education on book scouts, the people who trowel through thrift stores and garage sales hunting for books to resell to book dealers. If you love crime novels and you love books - the smell, the sound, the acquisition, the very essence of books - then you’ll love the backlist, book-infused Cliff Janeway series.
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