"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce."-- The Globe and Mail Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton. John Goldbach is the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories.
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“The world has hitherto been divided into plotters who wrote in shoddy
sentences and linguistic aesthetes who wrote beautiful sentences but
couldn’t make anything happen on the page, no plot. Goldbach manages to
do both—a thrilling plot and beautiful language. He has raised the bar
for both murder mysteries and literary writing.”
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Josip Novakovich, author of Infidelities