Chuck T-Bone is one of
the undead but he does not let that or his decaying flesh get in the way of
being a good Private detective.
Told in the first
person I could almost touch and taste the film noir texture of this story. It
is cleverly done with just a dash of tongue in cheek to stop it being cringe
worthy.
There was so much
humour I was giggling as much as grimacing at the many gross, yet funny descriptions.
My favourite paragraph occurred
when the “broad” walks in to the office with a job for our undead PI and DF manages
to combine the usual drop dead gorgeous body mental visual into something with
a bit more dead!
The front story is
really intense and engrossing keeping you reading to the finale, but the
underlying back story of how the world has become zombiefied is left to the
imagination with mere hints, which works really well.
The ending is so
cracking I did a snort out loud.
As a character I found
Chuck T-Bone to be brilliant and I really hope that DF can expand this into a
short story series as I feel she certainly has the talent to keep me hooked on
reading her.
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