Church of Spilled Blood - Jess Miles
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Private Investigator Jack Salvo, who also teaches philosophy at a local community college, is hired as a body guard for a group of Russian ballerinas visiting Los Angeles. One of them is kidnapped in front of him as he is immobilized by a taser. When she is returned unharmed, he is determined to find the kidnappers. During his investigation, he grows close to one of the other ballerinas, Yelina. After he discovers the dead bodies of the kidnappers, he is even more curious. Yelina returns to Russia where she is, in turn, kidnapped and Jack is hired to travel there to be the intermediary in paying the ransom. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, a well known church/museum in St. Petersburg, is the scene of the payoff which goes deadly wrong.
The writing style in Church of Spilled Blood is noirish and what I like to describe as Dragnetesque…just the facts. The plot is decent, fast paced, with some twists. For action fans, there is some of that as well. Jack is an honorable man, but willing to work around the law to solve a case.
This is actually the second novel featuring Jack Salvo, but it worked well as a stand alone.
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