Quinn Checks in: another terrific Kindle read for only $2.99

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Quinn Checks in by L.H. Thomson

Mystery series featuring insurance investigator, Liam Quinn

Kindle $2.99

Liam Quinn is a product of Philadelphia’s aptly named, Fishtown; a rough, elderly neighborhood out of which he develops a talent for boxing and a love for art. He has a dad and a brother on the police force, and an unfortunate three-year prison tern for art forgery.

Now he’s on the right side of the law with a nifty license to investigate insurance claims, courtesy of a family connection, though his unrequited love for his boss’s daughter keeps tripping him up. The author makes the most of Liam’s adoration of Nora in the fewest of words: “She’d always had that effect on me; that voodoo that caught my gaze and held it suspended, elevated, like a kite in an updraft.”  (sigh)

In his latest case, Liam must investigate a robbery that at first glance seems to be a grab and run of an original Vermeer in a swank modern art gallery. The nice fat reward for its return would do a lot towards paying off his restitution to the state.

But there’s more to the story than the one expensive painting. Like, why did the two robbers choose only the one painting in a gallery full of other expensive, if contemporary pieces? And why does one of the robbers linger next to another painting, but out of range of the security cameras? And why do the post robbery photos show that same painting to hang askew?

The author gives the reader a painterly introduction to Liam’s life, his friends, most of whom are ex-cons, as well as his Irish relatives; his warm and welcoming Irish parents, his truculent cop brother who is incapable of accepting Liam the incarcerated as a respectable investigator.

Liam dodges bullets, punches… okay, some not so much, mob-types, and all sorts of lovely women in this bright, witty and wonderfully complex first in the Liam Quinn mystery series.

Highly recommended!

by RP Dahlke