Review: Great entertainment
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2013
"Subtraction" by Andrew Peters is a crime noir book set in 1960s Las Vegas and features Mark Paris, a professor on 'sabbatical' in Las Vegas who earns his money as a fixer.We get thrown right into the story of Stan Maxwell, his latest client, who wakes up next to a dead blonde hooker in a motel room. Paris cleans it up but the story has only just begun.Told in a dry and witty commentary the case unfolds into a more complex and involved mystery. Andrews has a very engaging and wonderful style of writing that makes his stories very enjoyable but this is rather well plotted. Set in the 1960s the detecting is done in the oldfashioned way by deducting (subtracting?)information and establishing facts logically. As always original and never boring this is great intelligent entertainment.