{"id":7076,"date":"2018-02-19T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2018-02-19T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:14:39","slug":"crazy-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=7076","title":{"rendered":"****Crazy Rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By T.W. Emory \u2014<\/strong> If you need a break from serial killers and world-at-risk mayhem, TW Emory\u2019s Gunnar Nilson mysteries may be a perfect, lighthearted alternative. Crazy Rhythm<\/em> is entertaining, engaging, and written with tongue in cheek and a big tip of the grey fedora to Raymond Chandler\u2019s wisecracking private eyes.<\/p>\n

PI Gunnar Nilson lives in the rain-soaked northwest United States. In the current era, he\u2019s a resident in the Finecare assisted living facility in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, recuperating from a broken leg. But in his early 1950s heyday, he was a private eye in the city itself. He has stories to tell, and what\u2019s even more gratifying for an old man, attractive Finecare staff member Kirsti Liddell, aged about 20, wants to hear them.<\/p>\n

This is the second book having this set-up, and author TW Emory moves you smoothly back to the post-WW II era with its ways of talking and living. Nilson, the detective, lives in a heavily Scandinavian boarding house with his landlady, Mrs. Berger, a former fan dancer with the photographs to prove it, and two other single men.<\/p>\n

In the story he tells Kirsti, years ago Rune Granholm, the younger ne\u2019er-do-well brother of an old friend wants Nilson to attend a meeting with him where a significant amount of cash will be exchanged for an expensive Cartier watch. The whole set-up sounds fishy to Nilson, but he agrees to go out of loyalty to his dead friend and an understandable dab of curiosity. When he arrives at Granholm\u2019s apartment to meet up prior to the exchange, he finds Granholm shot dead.<\/p>\n

He is soon distracted from looking into Granholm\u2019s death by a potentially lucrative case dropped in his lap. He\u2019s asked to investigate threatening phone calls a wealthy heiress has been receiving. Delving into this woman\u2019s complicated past reveals, well, complications.<\/p>\n

Nilson is soon embroiled in more than one tricky situation involving beautiful women who seem rather more ardent than informative. At these points, Kirsti breaks in to remind Nilson that her mother, to whom she relays their conversations, finds his many supposed romantic conquests entirely unbelievable.<\/p>\n

Some blood is spilled \u2013 Granholm\u2019s certainly \u2013 but the whole effect is more charming than nail-biting. Nilson\u2019s evocation of Raymond Chandler is also entertaining, such as, \u201c\u2026it was guys like Rune who eventually got me to believe that the human race was for me to learn from, when I wasn\u2019t bent over laughing at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nilson is never wrong-footed as he pursues his investigations of various colorful characters, and it\u2019s fun to watch him in action. Writing a pastiche of an author as revered as Chandler is brave, and Emory carries it off in a style aptly embodied in the novel\u2019s title. A fast read\u2014perfect entertainment for a long airplane flight!
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By T.W. Emory \u2014 If you need a break from serial killers and world-at-risk mayhem, TW Emory\u2019s Gunnar Nilson mysteries may be a perfect, lighthearted alternative. Crazy Rhythm is entertaining, engaging, and written with tongue in cheek and a big … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"****Crazy Rhythm - perfect entertainment for a long airplane flight!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[272,52,54,3,126],"tags":[1245,306],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-crime","category-detective","category-mystery","category-reading-2","tag-private-eye","tag-raymond-chandler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1Q8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7078,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}