By Way Of Paris

 By Way Of Paris

Reviewed By  Ian Banks       January 12, 2025

 

Author  Christopher J. Newman

Distributor:      Collective Ink
ISBN:                 978-1-80341-608-3
Publisher:         Roundfire Books
Release Date:   November 2024  

   Website:   https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/roundfire-books/our-books/by-way-paris-novel

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Luke is a budding writer who decides his life sucks and makes the life changing decision to take a writing course in London, but on the way he decides he should spend a month in Paris. Attending a party, a murder is committed and he is blackmailed into helping hide the body.

After this disastrous start he goes on to London, deciding to use his Paris experience as the inspiration for what he considers could be possibly a best-selling novel. But, as with many a grand plan, things do not work out quite the way he thought and before he knows it, he finds himself not only in serious trouble, but with no conceivable way out.

By Way of Paris is an entertaining romp through the construction of what looked like being the perfect crime to write about, before it all went wrong. Deciding he needs a more authentic experience, he makes the decision to seek out a London Gang leader Shane, whose name he was given in Paris.

Several weeks later Shane has been discovered but wants nothing to do with Luke or his ideas. As Luke, over several weeks, becomes a persistent pest, Shane finally makes the decision to give him authentic.

Luke, not always the hapless victim of his own plot, finds himself in far deeper than any. almost innocent men, should be and somewhere along the way, realises that he needs to be able to right a terrible wrong, which is when things really do begin to become very tricky indeed.

If you want a seriously enjoyable crime noir read that is so very easily able to be related to, as who knows, this could almost happen to anyone, By Way Of Paris is most entertaining read.

Crime, Fiction