Genre: Legal Thriller
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Any book that opens with a cross dressing lawyer sporting a lovely wig is bound to catch my attention. Protagonist Trip Splatter keeps us laughing through this dark mystery. He is a Chinese-American character and as the story unfolds the reader gets some interesting history about the gangs in San Francisco's Chinatown. Trip gets word from an informant that prominent attorney Tim Tremble, attorney to the Chinese Mafia is allegedly involved with money laundering. Then, in the midst of a bloody gang war, Tim Tremble is killed in his mansion. Tremble's daughter's boyfriend is a likely suspect. After the young man's arrest, Splatter and his boyhood friend, Jack Marsten, find themselves defending the boy who is quite possibly innocent.
I enjoyed Eggleston's character development throughout the book. Trip has several facets to his personality and the author helps us appreciate his trials and tribulations as the story progresses. We see him try to solve past and present cases with the help of those around him. This book is classified as a thriller and seems to fill that bill. I relish books that keep me guessing, and this one did. There was almost too much confusion as I tried to figure out what happened in the past, but the author does a good job of laying it all out for the reader in the final chapter and epilogue.
Although I have not become as attached to Trip Splatter as I have to Myron Bolitar, Andy Carpenter, or Dismas Hardy, I will be looking for the next in this series. This author definitely has the potential to have a very successful series with an oddly likable protagonist.
- Beverly
Publisher - 21st Century Lion Books
Date of Publication - October 9, 2014
I enjoyed Eggleston's character development throughout the book. Trip has several facets to his personality and the author helps us appreciate his trials and tribulations as the story progresses. We see him try to solve past and present cases with the help of those around him. This book is classified as a thriller and seems to fill that bill. I relish books that keep me guessing, and this one did. There was almost too much confusion as I tried to figure out what happened in the past, but the author does a good job of laying it all out for the reader in the final chapter and epilogue.
Although I have not become as attached to Trip Splatter as I have to Myron Bolitar, Andy Carpenter, or Dismas Hardy, I will be looking for the next in this series. This author definitely has the potential to have a very successful series with an oddly likable protagonist.
- Beverly
Publisher - 21st Century Lion Books
Date of Publication - October 9, 2014
