Review: wonderful noir mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2012
I read the first chapter of this book on a website, and it made me decide to give the entire thing a chance. I'm glad I did. As a fan of hard-boiled detective novels, I'd say this qualifies as 'medium-boiled', as it has a good amount of humor and sex. That was fine by me. The book reminds me of the Dave Brandstetter series, which turned assumptions about gay men on their heads. This does the same by providing an eminently likable lesbian private detective who is a skirt-chaser par excellence. The mystery isn't too heavy duty, but it's good enough and reasonably novel.Is the mystery somewhat implausible? Yes. And the story in The Big Sleep was pretty implausible, too. However, there are enough twists and turns to be entertaining, and I liked the names, many of which were shootouts to 50s dyke fiction characters.I recommended this book to my boyfriend, and I'll see if he'll write a review also.  I can't wait to read more novels from Crista Faust, especially if they involve Butch and her lovely receptionist.