I also appreciated the personal note-thank you! The story follows a cast of characters who are entangled in a criminal plot which is focused on killing off gifted artists to profit from their creations after their death. I received this book as a Goodreads First Read and I want to thank the author for giving me the opportunity to read this novel. A delightful crime caper but only if you're not easily offended by sex, extreme violence and bad taste jokes. Oh - and there's a terrific twist right at the end. The pace is frenetic and features short, choppy chapters with the action switching back and forth between 20 until it reaches a glorious and bloody climax with bodies everywhere. Along the way, there's a serious run in with a bunch of Serbian gangsters and another major shoot-out when Phipps decides to tell all to the FBI. Now, Tesca has started murdering more artists and one of his relatives, a Mafia boss, has become involved in this unusual crime spree. They did that because, as a rule, when an artist dies the price of their work is likely to go through the roof. To begin with he killed a female artist after he and his long suffering partner Dale Phipps bought a couple of her paintings. The murders were actually committed by one of the bad guys, an extremely nasty piece of work called Tommy Tesca. The bad guys are utter slimeballs and the two good guy cops, Mark Bergman and John “Doonie” Dunegan have a problem because Mark recently had sex with a female artist known as Jane Doe, who may be a prime suspect in two murders. If you can stomach all that, this book is one helluva ride. There's also a lot of humour of the pitch black variety that's almost non-stop. There's a lot of sex, a lot of violence and some really nasty swearing in this story. The murders were actually co First, a warning.
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