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HITMAN
by Parnell Hall
Pegasus Books, September 2007
263 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 1933648538


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Stanley Hastings is a private investigator working out of New York City. His main client is a lawyer who hires Stanley to help out with personal injury cases. One day, a man named Martin Kessler walks into Stanley's office wanting to hire him. It seems that Mr Kessler is a hitman and has a contract to kill someone. Kessler doesn't want to kill this person and needs Stanley to follow him to make sure that he doesn't kill and to make sure that Kessler himself is not being followed.

Against his better instincts, advice from the lawyer he works for, advice from his wife, and advice from a friend who is a police officer, Stanley decides to take Kessler on as a client.

He follows Kessler around, but when Kessler tells Stanley that he should go back to his office Stanley decides to keep following him. Soon he leads Stanley to an apartment building where Kessler starts talking to another man and the two go into an apartment. Eventually Kessler leaves the building and sees Stanley and tells him that he did not kill anyone and that he should leave.

But the next day a dead body is found and that body is Martin Kessler. Then things start to really get confusing for Stanley when he finds out that Kessler is not who he said he was. Making matters worse, the police now suspect that Stanley is the murderer.

Who was Kessler, why is someone trying to kill Stanley now, and how can he prove to the police that he is not a killer? These are all questions that Stanley must answer.

HITMAN by Parnell Hall is a wonderfully humorous book. Stanley and his wife have a mutually respectful relationship, which is nice to see for a change. She understands that Stanley wants to be a PI and she will do whatever she can to help him. Even when Stanley's life is endangered she is right there beside him backing him up.

At first the reader might think that Stanley is not the type of man to be a PI. He does ask for advice from a lot of people. But in the end, Stanley does what he wants to do, even if it means all his friends and his wife have to come to his rescue.

Author Parnell Hall also writes the very funny Puzzle Lady Mysteries and I'm glad to say that the talent he has for writing humor appears in the Stanley Hastings series as well.

HITMAN is a funny, fast-paced, wonderful book with lots of twists, turns, and laughs. It targets your funny bone and will lighten up any day.

Reviewed by Sharon Katz, September 2007

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