Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Kiss Her Goodbye: Second Entry: 38 minutes later
Title: Kiss Her Goodbye
Author: Allan Guthrie
ISBN: 0843953551
Genre: Scottish Crime Thriller
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Pages: 223
Pages: On: 51
Chapters: 42
Chapter On: 9
Time spent: 53 minutes
Joe Hope, after visiting a hooker and his boss’s place, heads to the island where Gem (his daughter “killed herself”). Taken into custody when he arrives at Adam Wright’s place (Gem’s boyfriend) for the murder of Gem and Ruth (Joe’s wife). Joe is naturally confused.
Language (profanity): Lot’s of cursing.
Language (Scottish slang, etc.): I have not yet read anything that I do not understand, except for what the Taxi-driver said on the island.
Violence: Joe beats up Billy, runs over pedestrian, though seems to have some desire to control his violent tenancies. Cooper seems to like to use his baseball bat also. Tina beats a pedistrian with Joe’s baseball bat.
Causal Sex: “Off screen”(mentioned, but not graphically described).
Characters:
Joe Hope: Loan Shark enforcer
Cooper: Loan Shark - friend of Joe’s and Joe’s boss
Park: Killer for Cooper
Ruth Hope: Joe’s wife, now seemingly dead
Gemma Hope: Joe’s daughter, dead
Sally: Cooper’s girlfriend and mother of Cooper’s child
Adam Wright: Gem’s boyfriend and a writer with a “Writer’s Retreat” in the islands off coast of Scotland
DC Monkman: cop arrests Joe
Billy Stratham: Loanee late on his payments - Joe and Cooper visited Billy at the beginning of the book.
Tina: Joe’s hooker/streetwalker (as opposed to Anglina, I think that’s her name, brothel worker)
Author: Allan Guthrie
ISBN: 0843953551
Genre: Scottish Crime Thriller
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Pages: 223
Pages: On: 51
Chapters: 42
Chapter On: 9
Time spent: 53 minutes
Joe Hope, after visiting a hooker and his boss’s place, heads to the island where Gem (his daughter “killed herself”). Taken into custody when he arrives at Adam Wright’s place (Gem’s boyfriend) for the murder of Gem and Ruth (Joe’s wife). Joe is naturally confused.
Language (profanity): Lot’s of cursing.
Language (Scottish slang, etc.): I have not yet read anything that I do not understand, except for what the Taxi-driver said on the island.
Violence: Joe beats up Billy, runs over pedestrian, though seems to have some desire to control his violent tenancies. Cooper seems to like to use his baseball bat also. Tina beats a pedistrian with Joe’s baseball bat.
Causal Sex: “Off screen”(mentioned, but not graphically described).
Characters:
Joe Hope: Loan Shark enforcer
Cooper: Loan Shark - friend of Joe’s and Joe’s boss
Park: Killer for Cooper
Ruth Hope: Joe’s wife, now seemingly dead
Gemma Hope: Joe’s daughter, dead
Sally: Cooper’s girlfriend and mother of Cooper’s child
Adam Wright: Gem’s boyfriend and a writer with a “Writer’s Retreat” in the islands off coast of Scotland
DC Monkman: cop arrests Joe
Billy Stratham: Loanee late on his payments - Joe and Cooper visited Billy at the beginning of the book.
Tina: Joe’s hooker/streetwalker (as opposed to Anglina, I think that’s her name, brothel worker)
