Soho Dead: Tight and Enjoyable Crime-Noir Thriller

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Soho Dead by Greg Keen, is the debut novel in Keen's Soho series. If you enjoy gritty, crime-noir style writing, this may be a book for you.

For those who may be unaware, Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century. That is the setting of the novel, hence its name. Expect lots of British slang, and humor.

Soho Dead has a strong plot, well-developed characters, and is quality crime thriller writing.

Synopsis: Private investigator Kenny Gabriel is three years away from turning sixty, has forty-three quid in the bank, and is occasionally employed to find people who would rather not be found.

Broke, depressed, and having no clients, things can’t get much worse. Then Gabriel is summoned to the office of London media magnate Frank Parr, an old acquaintance from Gabriel's past. Parr's daughter, Harry, is missing—and there’s ten grand on the table to get her back.

It’s a lot of money, and God knows Kenny needs the cash, although the past history he has with Parr, gives Kenny pause. Still, Kenny takes the job, all the while suspecting it is a mistake, and he’s right. The job turns out quickly to be more than he bargained for, and Kenny is soon in over his head. Kenny may have been done with the past between him and Frank Parr, but it seems the past is far from done with him.