Published by : Titan Books
25 March 2016
Copy : Paperback received from Publisher
The Blurb
Meet George Kocharyan, Cambridge Confidential Services' one and only private investigator. Amidst the usual jobs following unfaithful spouses, he is approached by the glamourous Sylvia Bookers. The wife of the bursar of Morley College, Booker is worried that her daughter Lucy has fallen in with the wrong crowd.
Aided by his assistant Sandra and her teenage son, George soon realises that Lucy is sneaking off to the apartment of an older man, but perhaps not for the reasons one might suspects. Then an unfaithful wife he had been following is found dead. As his investigation continues - enlivened by a mild stabbing and the unwanted intervention and attention of Detective Inspector Vicky Stubbing - George begins to wonder if all the threads are connected...
The Very Pink Notebook Review
One in a series of George Kocharyan, private investigator, novels I enjoyed George's world. I really liked the mainstay characters of George, Sandra and Sandra's teenage son, Jason and the relationships between them. George, being a private investigator, you would assume to be a confident man but in reality he isn't, suffering still from the blow of his wife leaving him which has lead him to question his ability in most aspects of life. But this isn't portrayed in a sad (annoying woe is me way) it is done very comically. As are a lot of the things in this book, which given some of its subject matter is very dark, turns it from what could be a real stomach turning drudge, into something very readable.
The plot is very thick and complex and the author has woven the threads together in a well paced and clear manner. It is difficult to try and review the storyline without giving anything away so I won't try and say anything more than the blurb, apart from by the end you do feel as if there has been a real journey for George in many ways, not just with the investigation and piecing together the case he is working on but in his family and private life too.
Sandra and Jason both provide extra light for the dark side of this book and I do not think the story would work anywhere near as well without them, and I am glad they will be returning in further novels within the series.
With its dark comical narration and plot that twists and turns this is an enjoyable read and as such gets a Very Pink Notebook rating of :
About the Author
E.G Rodford is the crime-writing pseudonym of an award-winning author living in Cambridge, England. Rodford writes about the seedier side of the city where PI George Kocharyan is usually to be found.
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