The Red Storm
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Narrator Kevin Kenerly evokes the strong atmosphere of this mystery, set in 1930s New Orleans. He captures the swagger of African-American P.I. William Fletcher through dialect and portrays the smoky sensuality of Fletcher's client, Zelda, with a deep, almost masculine, tone. The story would benefit from showing more and telling less. Furthermore, some of Kenerly's accents are inconsistent on occasion, and the words of a dying man late in the novel give no indication of suffering even though the character is bleeding to death. But Kenerly keeps the listener hooked on the plot and atmosphere, so fans of the genre should find this debut enjoyable. J.F. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
October 5, 2015
Former heavyweight boxer William Fletcher, the narrator of Bywaters’s promising debut, winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel competition, is scraping by as a PI in 1938 New Orleans when Bill Storm, a criminal acquaintance, asks Fletcher to find his estranged daughter, the beautiful but hate-filled Zella Storm. Fletcher winds up becoming Zella’s protector after Bill’s murder. Because Sal Mallon, a psychopathic mobster whom Bill mutilated years before, now craves revenge, Fletcher finds himself negotiating with rival gangsters, hiding Zella and her aunt in a cabin in the swamp, and collaborating—nervously, since he’s black—with the corrupt, racist New Orleans police. Staying alive is difficult; resisting various temptations to back away is even more so—but Fletcher slogs ahead through a hail of bullets. Bywaters edges near Hammett territory with this unassuming hero who stoically accepts that, even though the odds are heavily stacked against him, he still needs to go on doing the best he can.
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