Wrong Man Down

<p><strong>Millie Henshawe—intrepid smart-talking gay ex-GI—is the field agent (hired gun) for Continental Removals LLC in Boston a niche firm catering to very special clients. Millie’s well-honed skills are tested when the unexpected happens and the hired gun becomes the target! A pitch-black comic novel. Gallows humor and dead-on dialogue.</strong></p><p>This fun off-beat murder mystery introduces wacky unconventional characters.  Millie’s boss Ralph Klammer and his assistant Mary Michael Mulloy who founded Continental Removals around the time of the Vietnam war with Ralph’s mother Sheila. Their assassin out-fitter and clean-up guy Mr. Moustakas  Jauncey Chambers the off-kilter driver for Millie’s first hit who thinks the whole set-up is just like the movies.  And then there’s Ray Roth a sad-sack gambler who leads Millie to an unlikely story and the unsettling truth about the business.</p><p>The author keeps the reader guessing with zany zig-zags in the plot and the dialogue pops with energy and invention.  Whether it’s Jauncey’s be-bop cadences the Mob-speak of thugs or the high-wire improvisations of Ralph when he Millie and Mary Mike get together for postmortems the punchy dialogue sets a new standard in fun murder mysteries.</p><p><em>Wrong Man Down</em> is the first Millie Henshawe novel in the series followed by <em>Who’s Who Among the Dead</em>.  These novels upend and reinvent the genre of crime fiction.  Millie the killer is also the detective:  she is the one who understands everybody’s story figures out all the details of the fiendishly complicated plots and explains how  everything fits together.</p><p>Part of the fun comes with the off-beat original characters she meets.  There’s Jauncey Chambers in <em>Wrong Man Down</em> the off-kilter driver for her first target who thinks the whole set-up is just like the movies.  And there’s Ray Roth a sad-sack gambler who tells Millie an unlikely story that nevertheless leads to the unsettling truth underlying the entire plot.</p>