The Hell of It All

A T.J. Peterson Mystery

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Pub Date 14 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2016

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“A stylish noir.” — The Globe and Mail on The Drop Zone

Retired detective T.J. Peterson is working the table scraps that his former partner, Danny Little, sometimes throws his way. One of them has Peterson hearing from a snitch about a body buried 30 years ago, the same time a drug kingpin went MIA. Peterson is also ducking an ex-con with a grudge, a hitman who likes playing jack-in-the-box with a 12 gauge. Then a former lover re-enters Peterson’s life and begs him to find her daughter, an addict who knows too much about the local drug trade for her own safety. The search for the girl and the truth about the 30-year-old corpse takes Peterson down into the hell of it all, deep into the underworld of crack houses, contract killing, money laundering, and crooked professionals doubling down on their investments of black money.
“A stylish noir.” — The Globe and Mail on The Drop Zone

Retired detective T.J. Peterson is working the table scraps that his former partner, Danny Little, sometimes throws his way. One of...

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ISBN 9781770413382
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PAGES 300

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It hasn’t been all that long sing TJ Peterson was drummed out of the Vancouver PD. Anger issues. Could’ve been because his wife was running around on him. But she and her paramour were crushed when a garbage truck flipped over on them. Or it could be his guilt from being with HIS paramour (a hooker) when that accident occurred.

To fill time, his former partner gets him some minor surveillance jobs. On one occasion, a snitch, who goes by the nickname Turtle, mentions that he overheard these 2 guys trying to top each other talking about a body buried going on 20y ago in a city campground. A cold case that doesn’t get any colder. Where is the body, who is buried, and why were they offed and unceremoniously dumped in a hole?

And remember Peterson’s hooker? Her daughter has disappeared and was last seen with one of the more violent dealers in the Canadian west. So Peterson is juggling two cases: the coldest of the cold cases and a hot current case. And both revolve around buying, selling, using, dealing, and dying from heroin.

The two separate, but strangely intertwined cases take Peterson’s days while trying to stay sober dominates his nights. All the while considering eating a bullet.

Perhaps one of the darkest noir book I have read recently, or ever. Kroll’s 2nd JT Peterson book was deeply disturbing. Probably because a close friend of my kids from high school succumbed to heroin and was missing for over a year until his remains were found in a nearby forest. In the last half of the book, I could see his face in my mind’s eye. Hopefully no one else will have the same reaction I did.

But it was a good book. Just dark. Really, really dark.

East Coast Don

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the title says it all - everything is gloom and doom and our protagonist is as noir-laden as a detective can be - pushed out of the police for drunken rage, he still links to his old partner 'off the books' but during this tough sprint he is romantic and saves the hard-put women in his life and on the street, including a young woman who reminds him of his own lost daughter, living on the streets herself - and he manages to bring down a major crime syndicate and a guy who has been getting away with murder and racketeering for decades - and then there's the crook who has been released on parole, an old case of his, who comes after him and is bested. okay, as you can see, it's a little hectic and it is relentlessly downbeat (and I could not keep track always of the names and people and the rather condensed references to their crimes in a lingo I learned as I went) but it is sure footed and professional. very impressive read.

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A labyrinth of drugs, dealers, prostitutes, and scamming money any which way you can. The Hell of it All is just that! Peterson is like a volcano; hard on the outside, but soft on the inside, which is what seems to land him in a whole lot of trouble. The characters that he runs with and runs from are a motley crew, and lends depth to the story as a whole.
Excellent plot- it's layered with back story and action, so don't blink or pay half attention, you'll miss something for certain. Then, just when you think all the loose hairs are going to tangle and never get straightened out, Kroll braids them up and ties it with a bow. Fantastic.

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This is the second book in a trilogy. When I started reading this book it was like chapter 1 left off where the first book ended. Because I had not read the first book, this caused a bit of confusion. It took me some time to understand what is going on and who everyone is. The book also ended a bit sudden, so I can only assume that the third book will immediately continue where the second one ended. It was for this reason that I only gave the book 3 stars. It might have been different if I had read the first one. Overall, it is a good story with a lot of twist and turns. I would recommend it, but only if starting with the first book.

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