Twinkle Toes
Devlin Haskell Mysteries
By Mike Faricy
ASIN: B00OEJP2RY
Author’s Website: http://www.mikefaricy.com
Review brought to you by OBS staff member Andra
Synopsis:
It’s feared exotic dancer Zoe Lawlor has been kidnapped and Private Investigator Dev Haskell finds himself on the case. Years back he knew her as Twink, the hottest girl in high school with pink hair. Now, she’s vanished after a supposed photo shoot with Tom Cruise and it’s left up to Dev to find her. He enlists the help of failed NFL tight end, Luscious Dixon who suffers from an anger management ‘disability’. From there things seem to plummet downhill. Faricy is at it again, this time with a zany short mystery that’s at once hilarious and somewhat chilling. Twinkle Toes is yet another fast paced crazy tale from Minnesota’s Master of the Bizarre, Mike Faricy.
Review:
Mike Faricy’s Twinkle Toes is an engaging, entertaining novella. His descriptive prose was succinct and well written. I was quickly immersed in the hunt for Zoe (aka Twink) that Dev embarked upon. The back story and description of Zoe (pink hair and all) was what hooked me to begin with. I needed Twink to be okay!
I loved the description of Carl…with it so detailed; I was able to visualize Carl: “Although I’d never net Carl, I recognized him. A local thug, wanna-be criminal mind and in general an abject failure….He had a tooled black leather belt sporting a large brass belt buckle in the shape of a sheriff’s badge. A silky black sport coat was draped over his T-shirt. His biceps made the sleeves of the coat look like stuffed sausages and did little to hid his shoulder holster.”
And so as not to forget, the character names certainly provided a couple of chuckle worthy moments: Tom Kruise (aka ‘The Commander’) and Luscious Dixon – ex NFL player with anger management issues.
Mr. Faricy’s writing style had me hooked almost immediately; leading me to the desire to pick up a full length novel from this writer and give that a go.
