The 131 Preview Review Presents
An Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinalist, Death by Haggis is a tongue in cheek detective novel inspired by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the "opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels." Until the day Jane Hamchester walked into his squalid office, the highlight of Detective Sam Barlow's life had been a particularly good tuna sandwich. Now he is charged with trying to save the life of the only woman he ever, uhm, thought was really swell. His only problem is that there are no clues, other than the nonsensical utterances of a dying man. Barlow's desperate search takes him first to Scotland and then to the Aegean. But time is running out. Not only for Jane but for the human race. Barlow's only possible hope lies at the bottom of an ancient cavern, a remnant from the time when a different kind of human populated the Earth, a kind of human that could have saved mankind. Alas, they are long extinct. Or are they?
This book is certainly a fun turn of events, that keeps you wondering when the next piano is going to drop. Read on for more weirdly profound craziness...
I'm not kidding about the piano drops either! Seriously Author Jay Cutts' writing style is reminiscent of Douglas Adams. The Author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where in it is intelligently focused in a nonsensical way of putting the story across. The flow and heavy use of simile and metaphor make for great laughs and better imagery.
Sam Barlow is our would be detective, a self-deprecatingly sweet character saddled with a tendency to trail off in squirrelly fashions and pass out at the faintest hint of female thigh. Jane is our damsel in distress who believes her life is in danger. Seeing as people and cats she comes in contact with keep dying around her, by poison or grenade we can quickly deem she's right.
After a wee bit of digging Jane reveals that she may or may not be part of some big experiment involving an renown Physicist named Ian Cadwalleder, whom she met one July afternoon in Pairs,who after some fancy talk of experiments and a few beers talked Jane into giving some interesting things... Yeah not going into it. You can laugh for your self when you read it...
So the information all points poor clueless Sam to booking a ship to go to Scotland and find Ian, a simple enough task if you can learn to understand the brogue. Which of course he doesn't.
67? 42?... Read and understand...
All in all a great read if I do say so myself... Go check out Death By Haggis From Jay Cutts, and have a pint by the fire.
Cheers!
FACEBOOK TWITTER GOODREADS JAY'S BOOKS
BUY LINKS:
BARNES&NOBLE AMAZON
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for Joining Us! Remember dear reader of the wee hours if you have enjoyed this or anything else you have found here give us a like, a share or leave a comment! We love to hear from you! And by We I mean me and the voices that write the books!
Oh and the cats.... Always the Cats....
Cheers! And Happy Reading!