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Book Blurb

Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned by his drug dealer ex-boyfriend. On top of that, a body is discovered in the trunk…by a cop.

Soon Alan’s life is completely upturned as he is pulled into a mystery involving more bodies, a highly lethal new street drug, a mysterious man with a top hat and cane, raging dwarves, a house fire, a cranky police detective, and his even crankier cat!

 

 

First edition published by Wilde City Press in July 2014.

 

Book Review

I'm fairly certain that if I were Alan, by the time I'd finished getting soaking wet in the rain, ruining new shoes and a new sweater, running into my ex-lover the drug dealer while repossessing his car, hitting a pothole and having to change the tire, finding a dead body in the trunk, and having a cop stop to help only to then find myself with a gun in my face and spread eagled on the wet concrete…well, I might have just curled into the fetal position and cried. So begins Hank Edwards's newest release 'Repossession is 9/10ths of the Law' and seeing that this was my maiden voyage into this author's writing, I was intrigued.

Alan has to have the worst luck of any person I've ever known. At thirty-seven he's now working as a deejay in a gay bar since his financial manager cleaned out his accounts and absconded with all of his money. Hence the job as a repo man since deejaying doesn't pay a hefty amount. He does own his home which is actually partitioned into two separate apartments and his best friend, Sabrina, rents the lower half. Alan's other friend, Gus, is the drag act at the bar and his cousin owns the repo company. Alan's dad is still alive and at seventy-two he's quite spry, particularly when it comes to clipping coupons and catching the sales. It's been two years since Alan kicked Jason out and then proceeded to get clean from his cocaine addiction which Jason introduced him to. Alan never thought he'd see him again until the night he repo'd Jason's car. You know, the one with the dead body in it? Now Jason is hunting Alan down all while evading the police. Could this get any worse? Why, yes, yes it can!

Things start to get pretty scary when someone sets Alan's place on fire, with him in it. I have to say, I admired him wanting to save his cat, but then trying to find all of his fun outfits to take with him, while his place us burning down? Hmm. A little silly. Finding Jason dead in his garage really puts the bow on that night. Well that, and then having to move back to his dad's and share a room with Sabrina. He does two more repo jobs with Gus and neither goes easily. Remember? Bad luck. The first one Alan inadvertently opens the car door into the SUV parked next to it and the owner of that car goes ballistic and tries to chase Alan down. The second one Alan slides in the damp grass and lands in dog poo resulting in him having to remove his clothes and shoes before getting into the car. That doesn't sound so bad, except Alan went commando that night. *grins* The best part? Alan decides it's up to Sabrina, Gus, and him to figure out what is going on because the cops aren't moving fast enough. Huh. Probably not what I would've decided....

This was an interesting and fun story that I enjoyed. I liked the twists and turns throughout and the cast of secondary characters were certainly fun. Overall, I would say that if you're looking for a romance, this is not it. But if you're looking for a funny, quirky, story about a guy with the worst luck in history who manages to turn Detroit on its ears, then this would be the story for you.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novel, 315 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	25-March-2017
Price	$5.99 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Repossession-10ths-Law-Hank-Edwards-ebook/dp/B06XVQRDXG