#BlogTour-‘Crazy For You’ by T.S Hunter

About the book…

It’s 1987, and Soho is in the grip of another hot summer. While working part-time in The Red Lion, Joe finds himself agreeing to help a notorious gangster search for her missing girlfriend.

Antonia The Gecko Lagorio is daughter to the ruthless but ageing gang boss, Tony The Lizard Lagorio. When her girlfriend, Charlotte Fenwick, goes missing, Antonia turns to Joe for help, believing her to have been kidnapped by a rival gang.

Charlotte Fenwick is daughter to multi-millionaire, Charles Fenwick—who also happens to be one of Freddie Gillespie’s bigger clients. Keen to keep any hint of a scandal out of the public eye, Charles Fenwick had already asked Freddie to recruit Russell and Joe to help him find his daughter discreetly.

With both of them on the case, Joe and Russell find themselves trying to stop a turf war between the two rival gangs while uncovering all manner of dark secrets about the missing heiress and her troubled life.

Meanwhile Freddie Gillespie has a run in with an old foe that could see him lose both his job and his relationship with Russell.

Hurray! We are on book 4 -4!- of the fabulous T.S Hunter’s Red Dog Press from Red Dog Press-‘Crazy For You’ is out now in paperback or ebook formats.

A tiny plea, if you are going to buy it-and frankly, why wouldn’t you?-I would love it if you could use the publisher website to do so .It is available elsewhere, but supporting an indie publisher by buying directly from them is like shaking their hands, and boosts their business in a way that butying from another place is a drop in the ocean to a multi national corp..naming no names, but you get my drift!

This time around, still recovering from the events of Careless Whisper, Russell and Joe are minding their business in the Red Lion, when a case comes their way.

Anotnia ‘the Gecko’ Lagorio and Freddie Gillespie (Russell’s boyfriend) both find themselves independently approached about the same missing girl case.

Charlotte (AKA Charlie) Fenwick has gone missing, believed kindapped. Her father, Charles, was making moves to set up Charlie and notorious London crime matriarch Ma Doherty’s youngest son, Kieran, without knowing that Antonia and Charlie were an item.

On one hand there is a smart suited girl, the daughter of a mafia kingpin who is desperate to find her girlfriend, on the other, a desperate father looking for his beloved daughter.

In the middle, a girl who is way out of her depth with a disappearing trust fund.

And then the ransom note arrives…

Cleverly playing with notions of identity, parent and child relationships and expectations, this immaculately paced ‘whodunnit’ wrong foots you at every turn . Russell and Joe try to not only find Charlie before a gang war breaks out on their patch, they have to deal with the malevolent Detective Skinner who is determined to bring Russell and his boyfriend Freddie’s relationship-and their careers- to its knees.

With a background of 80’s nostalgia subtly dropped into the background, this very much has the feeling of its 1987 backdrop, and it is impossible not to read it and have the lyrics of the 1985 Madonna track which gives the novella its title, on a loop in your head.

One of my favourite scenes involves Charlie’s mother pleading with them to find her daughter, convinced that she has run away to avoid being sent to a Swiss finishing school by her father. Her monologue on being married off, with no love or lust being part of the equation under the assumption that girls will grow up to be well behaved pawns for their parents is heartbreaking. It also explains why she anaesthetises herself with alcohol to avoid the reality of the gilded cage both she and her daughter live in.

I genuinely think it is the strongest story yet in the Soho Noir series,dealing as it does with how people think they are doing the right thing for someone they love, but when love and obsession mix, the fallout can be potentially fatal.

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He develops main characters and minor alike without losing sight of the plot which is quite a feat in such a short space.

Because his love for the written word and the eighties is infectious, it really is apparent in every sentence he commits to the page.

About the author…

Claiming to be at least half-Welsh, T.S. Hunter lived in South Wales for much of his latter teens, moving to London as soon as confidence and finances allowed. He never looked back.

He has variously been a teacher, a cocktail waiter, a podium dancer and a removal man, but his passion for writing has been the only constant.

He’s a confident and engaging speaker and guest, who is as passionate about writing and storytelling as he is about promoting mainstream LGBT fiction.

He now lives with his husband in the country, and is active on social media.

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