Crazy Rhythm
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Publisher Description
In the summer of 1950, private eye Gunnar Nilson reluctantly agrees to accompany Rune Granholm on an errand to collect gambling winnings. When Gunnar arrives at Rune’s Wallingford apartment, he finds the man dead, shot with his own gun. No one much cared for the caddish ne’er-do-well, but Gunnar feels he owes it to Rune’s brother, a good friend and casualty of World War II, to find the killer. When a paying client arrives, Gunnar puts this investigation aside.
Attorney Ethan Calmer wants him to investigate a series of phone calls menacing his fiancée, Mercedes Atwood. Mercedes lives in Broadmoor, a tony neighborhood occupied by Seattle’s moneyed class, many of whom are descended from lumber barons. A poor little rich girl, Mercedes is beautiful but strangely passionless.
Then, like the hula-girl lamp in the apartment of the late and unlamented Rune, Mercedes shows him her moves. Gunnar soon wonders if the two cases might be connected in some way, but how, exactly?
Book 2 in the Gunnar Nilson Mystery series, which began with Trouble in Rooster Paradise.
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Gunnar Nilson, from an assisted living home in Everett, Wash., in 2003, relates another tale of his days as a PI in Seattle to his caregiver, Kirsti Liddell, in Emory's solid sequel to 2015's Trouble in Rooster Paradise. One July day in 1950, Nilson agrees to go to a meeting that night as backup for shady operator Rune Granholm, who wishes to collect the $300 he won from a stranger playing pool but who didn't have the cash and instead gave him a gold Cartier watch as collateral. When Nilson stops by Granholm's place that evening, Granholm is lying dead on the floor, shot in the chest. The gold watch is missing, though Nilson doesn't believe the guy would have been murdered over a watch. Since Granholm's late older brother was a WWII buddy of his, Nilson decides to investigate. Meanwhile, a slick lawyer hires Nilson to keep an eye on his fianc e. This new case only temporarily distracts Nilson, an old-school gumshoe, from trying to figure out what scheme Granholm was up to that got him killed. Fans of throwback PI novels will find plenty to like.
