View of Northern England's Underworld
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In unabashedly "UK-english" vernacular, Jonathan Gash lets the reader in on the night-time world of hitmen, male gigolos ("goers"), female "stringers" (women prostitutes who work together) and their various clients. Also on hand is a peek into the UK medical world, and that of "plods", or underworld slang for detectives, specifically portrayed as both enthusiastic and seen-it-alls. Each chapter is headed by a vernacular word and its definition, but through-out the novel the reader has to be either familiar with UK slang--or quickly becomes familiar with a new vocabulary. Mostly a slice-of-life view of an unseen world replete with murder and mayhem, and featuring the erotic, enigmatic goer, Bonn and weary doctor, Clare Burtonall.
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Murder and commercial sex in darkest Manchester.
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A crime story with a difference. Not many books involve a doctor investigating a murder with the aid of a male prostitute who services women. This is not the only quirk to this gripping and fairly sexually explicit tale. It will come as a shock to those who associate Jonathan Gash with the comfortably naughty antiques crime world of the Lovejoy series. There is also a change of scenery, this book being set in Greater Manchester rather than rural East Anglia. Well crafted and tightly written, it is a better book than some of the later "Lovejoys".
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