Hardback: From the creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files, a fast-paced, stylish murder mystery featuring a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator who does for the city of Chicago what Elmore Leonard did for Detroit and Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles.
Chicago private investigator Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to help solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a case it turns out his old friend was once ordered to forget. When Gibbons turns up dead on Navy Pier, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: Diane Lindsay, a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, Nicole Andrews, a forensic DNA expert; Nicole's boyfriend, Vince Rodriguez, a detective with a special interest in rape cases; and Bennett Davis from the DA's office, a friend since Kelly's days on the force. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends and the mean streets of the city he loves.
Ferociously plotted and crackling with wit, The Chicago Way's (2007) protagonist, Michael Kelly, is a wisecracking Irish scrapper, slings metaphors like Philip Marlowe and reads Homer and Aeschylus in Greek. The Chicago Way is first-rate suspense steeped in the glorious, gritty atmosphere of a great city: a marvellous debut.
About the author: Michael Harvey is a writer, journalist investigative reporter and award-winning documentary producer. He has received national and international awards for his work. Harvey earned a law degree from Duke University, a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in classical languages (magna cum laude with honours) from Holy Cross College. He is the author of five crime novels and two stand-alone novels. He was also selected by the Chicago Tribune as Chicagoan of the Year in Literature for 2011. He is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and owns an Irish bar in Chicago, The Hidden Shamrock. He lives in Chicago.
Rating: 5/5
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