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Joe Hope provides muscle for a nasty Edinburgh loan shark. Joe is violent, ill tempered, miserable ... and the hero of our story, "Kiss Her Goodbye," by the Scottish crime novelist Allan Guthrie. I picked up this cool Hard Case Crime series entry, never having read anything by Guthrie.
I liked it.
There's not much in the way of local color, Guthrie could have put his story in the grimy underbelly of any big city. He focuses on plot and dialog, keeping this tale of bad guy on bad guy revenge moving briskly and efficiently.
It's an easy read and one genre fans will give the thumbs up.
I give it a B-.