Sick Like That

By Norman Green

Book Overview

Alessandra Martillo, the freshest heroine to enhance genre fiction ("Kirkus"), investigates a pal's deadbeat ex in this rollicking follow-up to "The Last Gig."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312385439
• ISBN13: 9780312385439
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.4" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I am not sure how I had missed Norman Green. His two books in the Al Martillo series are definitely worth reading for anyone who likes fun action filled PI stories. They are just enough different to be great. The two main protagonists are female and very different. The action driven, Al and the wife with problems at home, Sarah. I like that Al has realistic feeling problems arising from doing the fights she gets into. It makes both her and the stories believable. Sarah is very endearing with her real life issues at home. Her growth as she discovers that she is good at this is very real. This book is a fun action filled must read.

exciting double dose female noir

While her employer private investigator Marty Stiles is in rehab following a gunshot wound that has left him wheelchair bound and without a will to live; Alessandra "Al" Martillo takes charge of the office. She assigns the tedious tasks to office receptionist Sarah Waters, but also takes the newcomer out into the field. Sarah searches for a dying wealthy client Mrs. West's estranged stepson Jake. Al seeks Sarah's ex-husband, Frank, who vanished after informing his former wife he scored a terrific job that sounded suspiciously too good. Sarah's simple job takes a nasty turn while Al finds herself surrounded by law enforcement when Frank becomes a person of interest by NYPD and the Feds. Each Brooklynite struggles with their respective case but reacts differently. Although both females are from Brooklyn and kick butt, they are different and thus their particular subplot handled radically dissimilar. Al and Sarah make the tale work as their nominal boss Marty may have seen his Last Gig. Readers will appreciate this exciting double dose female noir as the dual searches don't quite go by the book as written by Norman Green. Harriet Klausner