With each new Boystown, I am more and more drawn into Nick Nowak’s world. He’s a smart, confident detective with a backwards kind of charm that reaches out and grabs me as a reader. I find myself very impatiently waiting for each new book in the Boystwon series just to see what new trouble Nick is going to find himself into. Boystown 3 was no different. I already want to stand over the author until he delivers the next one.

Each of these books has been a collection of cases Nick solves, while revolving closely around his personal life. Only a short time elapses from the end of one case to the next, but I always find it hard to write a review about the individual stories. That is a credit to the author because, at least to me, it reads as one novel and not individual stories. I don’t feel you can read one story without needing to read the one before or the ones after.

The Boystown stories are not love stories, so if that is what you’re after, I have to discourage you from reading them. Nick is handsome and promiscuous to the point of making me cringe (at times) but the stories are set in the very early eighties before AIDS had a name and the true reality of its threat was known. If a reader can’t keep that in mind, they are going to be turned off. I was, at first, but as I said in the beginning, Nick’s charm kept me reading. Where his life is headed and what happens next for both Nick and those he is close to has always kept me coming back for more.

I am very much looking forward to the next Boystown. I’ve been told this one will be one novel and not individual stories and I can’t wait. I hope everyone enjoys Boystown 3 as much as I did.

 

Theresa

 

Book Description: Private Investigator Nick Nowak is back in two novella length mysteries set in Chicago during the early 1980s. In Little Boy Boom, Nick’s car explodes when a thief attempts to steal it. Realizing the bomb was meant for him, Nick sets out to discover who wants him dead only to find that the list of possible suspects is longer than he’d like. When he begins to run out of suspects he wonders if the bomb was truly meant for him.

In Little Boy Tenor, Nick is asked to find the murderer of a church choir’s star tenor, while at the same time his friend Ross asks him to find out the truth behind his lover, Earl Silver’s mysterious death. As he juggles the two cases, he becomes increasingly disturbed by what he learns.

 

Length: 196 Pages (PDF)

 

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