Cliff Walk (Mulligan #2) – Bruce DeSilva
The question of the day is: Have you ever bought a book based on the quote by an author on the cover of a book??
EK Discovers Bruce DeSilva’s Liam Mulligan
I did just that earlier this year, after finding, The Dread Line by Bruce DeSilva at the Dollar Tree. I had never heard of Bruce DeSilva. However, Steve Hamilton is one of my favorite authors, and his quote about the book, convinced me it was worth taking a dollar chance on the book.
”The best yet in one of my favorite series ever — fast and funny, yet it packs a serious punch. This is hardboiled crime fiction at its best.”
— Steve Hamilton, two-time Edgar Award-winning author of “The Second Life of Nick Mason.”
Anyway, Steve was right! It was a terrific book. The story was really good and the main character Liam Mulligan was even better!” The Dread Line is the fifth book in the Liam Mulligan series. And after finishing it, I went right to my library’s website and requested the first book in the series Rogue Island, Needless to say, because it won the Edgar Award for best first novel, thatit too was a really, really fine book.
Then Reads Cliff Walk
Well, over the weekend I finished Cliff Walk book number two in the Mulligan series. One of the things that I really like about the Mulligan series is that Liam is neither a detective or a private investigator, at least not in this book. He is anewspaper reporter for the slowly dying Providence Dispatch.
Because of staff cutbacks Liam is asked to cover a Newport high society event. The evening ends with an Internet pornographer is found dead at the bottom of Newport’s famous Cliff Walk. Mulligan had earlier in the evening seen the pornographer in a discussion with the governor.
On his own beat Mulligan is investigating the discovery of a child’s arm in pile of garbage at a neighboring pig farm. At first the incidents seem unrelated. However, as Mulligan investigates the pornographer’s businesses, now being run by his daughter, they may not be.
As Mulligan investigates murder, pornography and corruption in the state of Rhode Island he is surrounded by a colorful cast of characters including his lifelong friend Atilla the Nun the colorful state’s attorney general, his trainee the newspaper publisher’s son, who Mulligan calls Thanks-Dad and even his bookie nicknamed “Whoosh”. Oh and his other lifelong friend Rosie who is only there in spirit to offer help.
The Bottom Line
The bottomline is Cliff Walk is another great addition to a series that has quickly become a favorite. Hey, how and I not like Mulligan. He loves Buddy Guy, Tommy Castro and other blues greats and he reads mystery novels!!
So Check out Cliff Walk, well, actually start at the beginning with Rogue Island and then jump into Cliff Walk. As for me I’ll be jumping into book three in the series Providence Rag!
