A Town Called Malice
Bosstown Series, Book 2
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February 15, 2019
It's a blast of an opening, promising a wild ride. Friends are ending their evening in a Boston club when the door explodes with a waterfall of glass cascading to the sidewalk, followed by the soft oxygen pop of ignition and a deadly orange fire. The narrator is bike messenger Zesty Meyers, the sort cops and reporters love because he goes everywhere, and people don't watch what they say around him. No surprise when he's hired for a surveillance job. The surprise comes as we watch the mystery plot nearly vanish while Zesty turns into a young curmudgeon, grumbling incessantly about the crummy twenty-first century: Pottery Barns and Apple stores, high-priced galleries, million-dollar condos, Art Deco streetlights. Plus a long sequence on the history and interior of a Loews Hotel. There's a crime story here, about shell companies and Bitcoins, but Zesty is more interested in the damage done to Boston by the Ted Williams Tunnel. Read this for the series of well-crafted musings and anecdotes, trying not to mind the wobbling narrative line.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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