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This is a wonderful yarn, full of amazingly colourful characters, dialogue that sweeps across the pages like a tsunami, a story that will keep you reading late into the night, and a plot as devious as a lawyer's mind.
CANADIAN CRIME FICTION
March 29, 2008
KEN KILPATRICK
BARRINGTON STREET BLUES
by Anne Emery
(ECW Press, 315 pages, $24.95 softcover)
When two men are found shot dead outside a Halifax bar, police call it a murder-suicide and quickly wrap up their investigation.
But Monty Collins, a Halifax lawyer involved in a lawsuit against an addiction rehab centre, from which one of the dead men had been released, fears the case could be a double murder and that the lawsuit could be for nothing. So he starts an unofficial probe.
The gang from Emery's two previous mysteries is back again.
Monty's shoot-from-the-lip wife (from whom he's been separated for five years. They share care duties for their two children) teaches at the law school in Halifax.
She has the sharpest tongue this side of Gillette and is the source of wicked repartee that will cause you to laugh out loud.
This is not your average mystery. Monty plays in a blues band around Halifax as well as practising law. He also sings in a church choir (led by his good friend Father Brennan Burke, who likes to smoke and drink).
This is a wonderful yarn, full of amazingly colourful characters, dialogue that sweeps across the pages like a tsunami, a story that will keep you reading late into the night, and a plot as devious as a lawyer's mind.
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