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A review by eleellis
Frank Sinatra in a Blender by Matthew McBride
4.0
Frank Sinatra in a Blender by Matthew McBride has been on my TBR pile for quite some time and it is one of those TBR books where after being read the reader asks him or herself what took so long.
Nick Valentine is a former St. Louis police officer with direct ties to the current police chief and a lover of too much booze and too much dope. While with these flaws, Valentine still has a moral center when it comes to most things, but with other things, like dealing with nasty people, he prefers to deal with them in ways that most people are not willing to do so.
Valentine is asked to examine the scene of a reported suicide and quickly determines there is much more to the "suicide" than meets the eye. Soon, he is also roped into finding out the people responsible for a violent and lucrative armed robbery of a credit union resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The novel then follows Valentine's pursuit of the unanswered questions and reads like a hard-core detective noir from the fifties brought forward and dropped right down into modern times.
Frank Sinatra in a Blender is full of the type of violence expected in such a pulpy novel along with witty, smart-assed comments and replies by those involved. The novel is highly recommended to those that enjoy urban noir fiction and film noir movies from the 40s and 50s.
Nick Valentine is a former St. Louis police officer with direct ties to the current police chief and a lover of too much booze and too much dope. While with these flaws, Valentine still has a moral center when it comes to most things, but with other things, like dealing with nasty people, he prefers to deal with them in ways that most people are not willing to do so.
Valentine is asked to examine the scene of a reported suicide and quickly determines there is much more to the "suicide" than meets the eye. Soon, he is also roped into finding out the people responsible for a violent and lucrative armed robbery of a credit union resulting in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The novel then follows Valentine's pursuit of the unanswered questions and reads like a hard-core detective noir from the fifties brought forward and dropped right down into modern times.
Frank Sinatra in a Blender is full of the type of violence expected in such a pulpy novel along with witty, smart-assed comments and replies by those involved. The novel is highly recommended to those that enjoy urban noir fiction and film noir movies from the 40s and 50s.