The Midnight
Promise (Private Detective Mystery)
By Zane
Lovitt
ISBN
#978-1609451332
Europa
Edition www.europaeditions.com
320 Pages
Price $16.00
Rating
5-Stars
“What You Get
Is Good Story Telling”
Private
detective John Dorn lives in his office in Melbourne, Australia since his wife
left him, and is kept working when his friend Demetri brings cases to him.
Calling himself a private enquiry agent, he does whatever jobs come his way,
which are mostly infidelity investigations with a camera. He doesn’t feel good
about himself or his work, but he needs the money for whiskey and office rent.
There are ten
stories in this volume, each separate cases, though they follow a chain of
events,. There are no gun battles or fist fights, just good story telling. Each
case ends with a moral for the reader to digest, though the ending is not
always good. In one case he wants
closure to a previous investigation, and allows three men to beat him almost to
death, only saved at the last minute by Feds raiding the establishment. The
favorite tale for me was Leaving The Fountainhead. Dorn finds a bar on a dark
rainy night and is drinking his sorrows away when a man enters the bar asking
for directions. The bartender gives him the wrong directions on purpose. Dorn,
spying a full bottle of whiskey on the shelf spins a wild story about the man
after he departs, making him out to be a crazy killer, and tells the barman he
will return to exact vengeance. Was it a fancy tale to obtain that bottle of
whiskey, or was it true. We don’t find out, but it could have been either way.
The bartender gives Darn the whiskey to head off the stranger.
A midnight
promise is one you make at midnight when you don’t intend to keep it, and all
through the book, the reader wonders if Dorn will finish the run, or not keep
his promise to survive – if he even wants to. The stories are well written, and
entertaining, and the reader will find Dorn an odd sort of private
investigator, but you will root for him at the end.
Tom Johnson
Detective
Mystery Magazine
Looking really great ..Waiting eagerly for the stories on private Detective.
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