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Crang, the smart (and often smartass) criminal lawyer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery while on vacation on the French Riviera.
Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Crang is leaving for a holiday on the French Riviera with his movie-critic girlfriend, Annie, his rich-as-Croesus former father-in-law appears to ask if he’d mind checking up on an errant family member who is said to be hanging out in Monaco. Crang says he’ll do the favour, a decision that drops him into a series of ever-tighter spots on the Côte d’Azur.
Crang and Annie enjoy the Riviera’s pleasures, but lurking in the background, gathering menace, is a piece of elaborate fraud and murder. Crang has no choice except to solve all the riddles, nail the murderer and, if he’s adroit enough, eventually tip the scales of justice in the good guys’ favour.
Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Crang is leaving for a holiday on the French Riviera with his movie-critic girlfriend, Annie, his rich-as-Croesus former father-in-law appears to ask if he’d mind checking up on an errant family member who is said to be hanging out in Monaco. Crang says he’ll do the favour, a decision that drops him into a series of ever-tighter spots on the Côte d’Azur.
Crang and Annie enjoy the Riviera’s pleasures, but lurking in the background, gathering menace, is a piece of elaborate fraud and murder. Crang has no choice except to solve all the riddles, nail the murderer and, if he’s adroit enough, eventually tip the scales of justice in the good guys’ favour.
Price: $16.99
Pages: 264
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
15 November 2016
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459733282
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Crime & mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Classic Crime Fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime & mystery: police procedural, Street crime / gun crime, Crime & mystery fiction
Riviera Blues is a spirited romp with a soaring plot that doesn’t stand in the way of Batten’s hilarious sense of humour.
A master of the genre, Riviera Blues is another outstanding title in Jack Batten’s Crang Mystery series. An authentically riveting read from cover to cover.
A master of the genre, Riviera Blues is another outstanding title in Jack Batten’s Crang Mystery series. An authentically riveting read from cover to cover.
Jack Batten, after a brief and unhappy career as a lawyer, has been a very happy Toronto freelance writer for many years. He has written thirty-five books. Batten reviewed jazz for the Globe and Mail, wrote for the Toronto Star, and reviewed movies on CBC Radio for twenty-five years. Not surprisingly, jazz, movies, and crime turn up frequently in Crang’s life.