Hell's Kitchen Homicide

by Charles Kipps

Book Overview

A fast-paced debut thriller "with great characters and hot action" says Stuart Woodsfrom an award-winning television writer and producer whose credits include the crime drama hits Law and Order and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439139946
• ISBN13: 9781439139943
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Police Procedural

I read a lot of mysteries and I'm partial to police procedurals and have read many over the years. This one was outstanding and kept my interest throughout. The author did a terrific job of making the hero, Conor Bard a most realistic character and cop. Conor Bard is a homicide cop with a partner who is retiring--though reluctantly. As with many of these stories about partners, though bantering between them is believable and sometimes funny while they try to figure out who the murderer of a well-known lawyer might be. Of course there are plenty of suspects as Conor and his partner investigate each one. The story begins with a bang and end with a surprise. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery. Marilyn Author of the Rocky Bluff P.D. series.

Entertaining read

This is a fast entertaining read. It seems like a man's book at first but very enjoyable for a woman too. Kipps makes the story seem very real just like a "Law and Order" episode.

A MUST READ!

I rarely write book reviews, but I felt compelled to share my incredible enthusiasm pertaining to this brilliant read. As a resident of New York City and a huge fan of police detective mysteries, this book is exceptional. I cannot wait to read the next book of this very talented author, Charles Kipps!

A great mystery the fooled me.

I spent much of my early days in the city in Hell's Kitchen and even though the area has become gentrified, this book made me realize that the streets are not as safe as it seems. The story draws you in right away and then picks up speed, till you realize that it's four in the mourning and you still have fifty pages to read. Of course, I still didn't figure out the mystery so I stayed up till five and was glad I did (except for the next morning). I can easily see this being a series of books that I will add to my must read list. Their are plenty of odd ball characters and Conor Bard, the detective/wanna be rock star, is compeletly believable, in fact I wish I was him. Really, it's a terrific mystery that I have already reccomended to several of my friends. I don't write many reviews, so that alone is an indication that I felt that this was a special book. It won't be long before Charles Kipps is up there with authors like Stuart Woods.

terrific New York police procedural

The corpse is found in Hell's Kitchen overlooking the Hudson. NYPD Detectives Conor Bard and Ralph Kurtz have the lead though the latter is retiring in a week. The corpse is criminal defense attorney Walter Lawton with mob ties, who has freed many obvious felons from incarceration. The obvious prime suspect is the victim's wife Holly who will inherit millions. The cops learn her lover is a professional hit man running a Brooklyn kennel Salvatore Zeffel and they fish the murder weapon a 22 out of the river; Sal's choice of guns. The case takes several spins with almost all having an Albanian connection, but none quite making sense. Adding to Bard's confusion is four women in his life: his boss who never leaves the station; his former lover who is seeing jealous Captain Reynolds; Holly who calls him all the time, and Albanian visitor Monica who he calls. He is attracted to the latter two while he wants Reynolds off his back as the case seems to go nowhere. This is a terrific New York police procedural as nothing is quite what it seems. The banter between the partners is fun and Conor's female problems add depth to him, but it is the whodunit that makes this an entertaining tale. Every clue leads to the Albanian community in the Bronx, but every step forward also leads to a seemingly dead end. Sub-genre fans will enjoy this fast-paced thriller as the streets of Manhattan seem dirtier than usual. Harriet Klausner