Lucky Bones
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A case of stolen shoes leads maverick Chicago PI Sam Kelson into something far darker and deeper in the second of this hardhitting crime noir series.
"My boyfriend's been stealing my Jimmy Choos." Genevieve Bower has hired private investigator Sam Kelson to recover her stolen shoes from her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. The problem is that no one's seen Genevieve's boyfriend for the past two weeks.
Events take a disturbing twist when, in his search for the shoes, Kelson comes across a body, shot in the head. A clear-cut case of suicide ― or is it? Has Kelson's client been wholly honest with him? What is this case really about?
At the same time, an explosion rips through one of the city's public libraries, leaving a friend's nephew critically injured. Could there be a connection? If there is, Kelson's determined to find it. But Kelson's not like other investigators. Taking a bullet in the brain during his former career as a Chicago cop, he suffers from disinhibition: he cannot keep silent or tell lies when questioned ― and his involuntary outspokenness is about to lead him into dangerous waters...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Wiley's strong sequel to 2019's Trouble in Mind, Chicago PI Sam Kelson, who left the police force after a bullet wound damaged his frontal lobe, takes on a new client, Genevieve Bower, who wants his help retrieving a hundred pairs of knockoff Jimmy Choos, which she claims were stolen by her boyfriend, Jeremy Oliver. Kelson visits Oliver's home only to find him dead of a gunshot wound. After Kelson reports the death and returns to his office, he finds Genevieve waiting for him. She admits to moving the corpse to make Oliver appear to have committed suicide. Things get even weirder when the police arrive at the crime scene and there's no body. After Oliver's van is torched, Genevieve discloses that Oliver possessed a valuable thumb drive, which has gone missing and is wanted by some dangerous people. Humor enhances the clever whodunit plot. Wiley's quirky lead, who's unable to keep his thoughts to himself because of his injury, will appeal to fans of oddball sleuths like Jonathan Lethem's Lionel Essrog.
