| Thicker Than Water I can guarantee you one thing. When you finally turn that last
page you'll be utterly and absolutely exhausted. Kit O'Malley is
a motor mouth PI with a wicked sense of humour, and she has to
be the most exuberant detective we've ever seen in print.
O'Malley tangles with a couple of Melbourne's most notorious crime
families, a dodgy cop, some crooked ex-cops, a few drug dealers,
a couple of bungling kidnappers, a Toorak socialite, some hot shot
journos, and of course a few dead bodies (actually quite a lot
of dead bodies). In the mean time her own brand-new romance is
distracting her ever so slightly. And did I forget to tell you,
just to add a little atmosphere, there's a serial killer on the
loose.
If there were a criticism it would be that perhaps there is just
a little too much going on. Kit, who also happens to be a would-be
novelist, even gives us a couple of pages on writers' block and
how to develop character.
O'Malley has a million friends and even more enemies, they're
all entertaining and most of them would talk under wet cement.
At the very least you'll feel like you got your monies worth.
Paula Hunt |