Reviewed by Colette
TITLE: Repossession is 9/10th of the Law
AUTHOR: Hank Edwards
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 94,900 words
BLURB:
Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned by his drug dealer ex-boyfriend. On top of that, a body is discovered in the trunk…by a cop. Soon Alan’s life is completely upturned as he is pulled into a mystery involving more bodies, a highly lethal new street drug, a mysterious man with a top hat and cane, raging dwarves, a house fire, a cranky police detective, and his even crankier cat!
REVIEW:
Alan has taken to repossessing cars to help make ends meet, unfortunately for him, he is horrible at it. His first attempt at it gets him involved with crazy drug dealers, a deadly new street drug, murder and mayhem.
Alan Baxter is having a rough night, he is soaked, he had a sad uncomfortable run-in with his ex, he has a flat tire, oh and yeah the cops found a dead body in his trunk. In fact things haven’t been going so well for Alan lately: his job as a deejay at a gay club in Detroit barely covers his bills, the money his longtime lover left him was stolen by a crooked advisor, he has gone through rehab – his car owning ex got him hooked on coke, and he has just been hauled in to the precinct because the cops found a dead body in the car he was driving – the one he repossessed from his druggy ex, the one he got a flat tire on, in the rain – yeah, that car.
Repossession is 9/10th of the Law is basically a screwball comedy. There is a cast of colorful secondary characters: Sabrina, his friend and tenant, Gus aka Marishka Bountiful, his drag queen best friend, Detective Treadwell, the cranky cop assigned to the case, Don, the seedy owner of club where Alan works and Tim, a bar tender and his maybe love interest. There is the crap (literally) Alan gets into every time he tries to repossess a car, there are the crazy situations he gets himself and his friends into, throw in a house fire, a kidnapping and a cat named Baxter and what you have is a light, funny romp.
Overall, I enjoyed this book, there were a few laugh out loud moments, only a little angst, and the mystery gets wrapped up neatly at the end with a happy ending for all involved. I would have enjoyed a little more romance, but that is just me.
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