lizzyreadz 's review for:

Fog City: A Fog City Noir Mystery by Claire M. Johnson, Claire M. Johnson

3.0

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Mystery, murder and San Francisco is a cool formula for some fun noir! I really liked this classic style of noir mystery and especially liked that the protagonist was a young woman in the city in the late 1930s who is realizing that the traditional housewife scenario is no match to her natural skills as a private investigator. Maggie Laurent is the reluctant secretary of one of San Francisco's most respected and loathed private dick Nick Moore, of the Moore Detective Agency. When Nick goes on a wildly long booze bender, Maggie decides to try to save the Agency and Nick's reputation, by taking the lead in a seemingly easy missing persons case. She also hopes if she can solve it, Nick will give her a promotion from secretary to detective at the agency. What she didn't anticipate was the body count adding up around her and the double, triple, quadroople crosses she will need to navigate to safe herself, Nick, and her family. This is a page-turner and easy read for any mystery lovers.