Larry Bainhart’s new crime novel flips the detective script

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Beinhart immediately sets a literary hook. The first sentence is: “A woman on the train asked me to kill someone.” How could a reader think of writing down a book with such an opening line? Impossible, right?

This book fits into the much-loved subgenre of crime fiction, where the protagonist is a criminal. In this his fourth book in the series, Beinhart turns the typical detective trope inside out by turning investigators into criminals. Cassela hesitates for a moment. Given that money, he agrees to become a hitman.

Comedy follows. He was hired to arrange the death of a very wealthy man with wandering eyes. The woman on the train was tired of her husband’s cheating. She and her rather bloodthirsty lawyer friend recruit Cassela to sniff out this amorous Casanova.

They offer him $100,000, enough to save his house. He calculates one and done. He commits one crime, and returns to retirement. After an unfortunate accident that ended the life of her husband like the easily despised Jeffrey Epstein, he planned to walk away.

not so soon Lawyers have a different idea. Cassella is so talented in his new profession that she intends to start a business of making contracts to kill people. And guess what? That’s right, Tony C. will be her man to get the job done.

He doesn’t like the new business at all. He has to find a way out of this problem. Comedy continues. He also learned how the low-budget film Wag the Dog, which cost him just $20 million and soon grossed $40 million, didn’t make any money for the writer. increase. They call them monkey points. Uninteresting. Jeez.

Vick Mickunas of Yellow Springs interviews the author every Saturday at 7:00 am and Sunday at 10:30 am on WYSO-FM (91.3). For more information, see: www.wyso.org/programs/book-nookplease contact him [email protected].