Dirty Sweet: A Mystery
By (Author) John McFetridge
ECW Press,Canada
ECW Press,Canada
1st May 2008
Canada
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
537g
In the middle of the afternoon on a busy downtown Toronto street a man is shot in the head behind the wheel of an SUV. The killer drives away before the light changes - it could be road rage, or it could be a random act of violence. It is, in fact, neither - it's opportunity for everyone involved. In the tradition of Christopher Brookmyre and Elmore Leonard, Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story following each character to a very surprising end.
""Dirty Sweet" is an amusingly sordid tale that features amusingly sordid people . . . If more people wrote the kind of clean-as-a-whistle, no-fat prose McFetridge does, this reviewer would finish a lot more of their books." --"National Post"
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"The dubious fun is in the dialogue and details of a very entertaining and libidinous local debut." --"Toronto Star"
John McFetridge first became fascinated with crime when attending a murder trial at age 12 with his police officer brother. After studying writing at Concordia University and the Canadian Film Centre, McFetridge worked on film sets before writing screenplays and co-writing the novel, Below the Line. He lives in Toronto with his family.