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A review by northstar
A Hard Ticket Home by David Housewright
3.0
A St. Paul cop named Rushmore McKenzie comes into a large sum of money and begins "helping" people on the side (shorthand for "not a licensed PI"). An acquaintance asks him to search for his long-lost older daughter, because his younger daughter has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. This somehow morphs into a gangs-and-guns hardboiled story.
The plot kept me curious, although I guessed one element pretty quickly. But Housewright tries to make McKenzie both tough and funny and neither one comes off perfectly. It was fun to read about the various neighborhoods and streets in my home city but while I accept that crime and organized crime occur everywhere, I just didn't buy into the concept of St. Paul noir.
I might read another in the series but this one was more violent than the books I prefer.
The plot kept me curious, although I guessed one element pretty quickly. But Housewright tries to make McKenzie both tough and funny and neither one comes off perfectly. It was fun to read about the various neighborhoods and streets in my home city but while I accept that crime and organized crime occur everywhere, I just didn't buy into the concept of St. Paul noir.
I might read another in the series but this one was more violent than the books I prefer.