Good Girl, Bad Girl by Christopher Finch
Expected publication: August 6th 2013 by Thomas & Mercer
Synopsis from Goodreads:
That was a tough year to be a New
Yorker. The city was so broke there was a rumor going around that the mayor had
been spotted on the Bowery, cleaning windshields at stoplights in the hope of
scoring a nickel, or maybe a nickel bag. It's 1968, New York City is in a state
of mayhem, and private eye Alex Novalis is flat broke. So he accepts a mundane
missing persons gig from wealthy construction mogul Gabriel Kravitz, whose
eighteen-year-old daughter, Lydia, has disappeared. The only lead is that Lydia
had been sleeping with Jerry Pedrosian, a radical artist and known womanizer.
But there are few clues, and everyone in Lydia's life seems to be hiding
something, including her mini-skirted best friend, Andrea Marshall, who Novalis
is inconveniently attracted to. And as he traverses the city from scummy artists’
lofts in pre-gentrified SoHo to luxury penthouses overlooking Central Park. He’ll
face more danger than he signed on for. A coolly sophisticated detective story
and portrait of late 1960s New York City, Good Girl, Bad Girl offers a glimpse
at the forbidden sex, politics, art, drugs, and counterculture violence that
ran rampant in its once gloriously gritty streets.
This was me second NetGalley read. And so far I am impressed
with the selections I have been given the privileged to read.
From the very first page I was intrigued, the description of
New York City was spectacular. I only
wish the car in the description used to describe the setting was used for the
rest of the book. Finch did get you into
the characters making you want to read more and to see who exactly Novalis is
and what Lydia – among others - was hiding.
The book is written in a classic film noir style, and I
admit I never read any type of book like this one. And constantly while reading
it I was catching myself reading in a
dark, musky , detective voice. You know, Dick Tracy like. (ActuallyI
cannot remember Dick Tracy, but ya know… it was the first thing to pop into my
mind) So, that was fun. The mystery of the plot was enticing and the twists
came at the right time.
I gave it 3.5 stars. It almost made it to 4 stars, but I
just couldn’t do it. Something about the ending just didn’t’ sit well with me. It was a great read
and I recommend it to people to definitely read when it comes out, it just wasn’t
an ohmygod, will read again type book.
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