The Song of Geneva Chance: Death has all the best tunes.

by Keith Dixon

"I enjoy Lee Child, Robert Crais, Tess Gerritson. So I think Keith Dixon is up there with the greats." - Amazon Reviewer Ex-Firearms specialist Paul Storey takes a job looking for two missing guitars belonging to a pop group who were big fifteen years ago. In a world of amateurs, he’s a professional. So how hard could it be? But soon there’s a murder, and a connection to large-scale drug smuggling, and to a pair of Albanian crooks who are looking to expand their operations and don’t care how they do it. In addition he finds himself drawn to the beautiful singer Geneva Chance, who has secrets of her own. What seemed a straight-forward detective story becomes both complicated and dangerous. Keith Dixon is the two-time winner of Chanticleer Reviews' First in Category Award for private eye/noir novels. The Song of Geneva Chance is the third Paul Storey Thriller in the tradition of writers like Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler, in a series described as containing “gritty action, twists and turns, and credible, complex characters”. If you like action thrillers with surprising characters, intricate plots, lots of humour and great dialogue, then The Song of Geneva Chance will be for you.

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2018

About the author

Keith Dixon was born in Yorkshire and grew up in the Midlands. He’s been writing since he was thirteen years old in a number of different genres: thriller, espionage, science fiction, literary. He’s the author of seven novels in the Sam Dyke Investigations series and two other non-crime works, as well as two collections of blog posts on the craft of writing. When he’s not writing he enjoys reading, learning the guitar, watching movies and binge-inhaling great TV series. He’s currently spending more time in France than is probably good for him.

Learn more about Keith by following him on Twitter @keithyd6, by reading his blog at www.cwconfidential.blogspot.com or connect with him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SamDykeInvest...
On his website you can download a couple of free books and find out more about the others: www.keithdixonnovels.com.

His Amazon page from which you can buy all the books is here: http://www.amazon.com/Keith-Dixon/e/B...

Reviews

[Eric J. Gates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Paul Storey, author Keith Dixon’s ex-police firearms specialist, is at a loose end. He spends his days procrastinating about his future, thinking about doing maintenance on his deceased father’s house. When the offer of a job comes up, thanks to his recent notoriety as a result of the events in the previous novel, ‘One Punch’, he jumps at the chance to alleviate his boredom. That’s how author Dixon kicks off another tightly woven, complex crime thriller featuring his new protagonist.

As with the previous books in the series, this is a novel driven by the actions of the characters who populate the book’s pages. The different members of the pop music band who are victims of a robbery, the distinct criminal factions who become involved as the drama unfolds, and a laid-back Paul Storey who is the link that connects all the characters who propel the tale to its bloody finale.

Dixon has once again produced a wonderful portrait of the darker side of human nature, a canvas which allows him to use the relationships between his cast of very believable characters to create tense situations that have the reader flicking the pages until late at night. Storey is much more like the American private detectives from the forties and fifties in this one, with his laconic observations as he provokes his clients and suspects alike so they reveal the real truth behind the simple robbery. Another winner from Keith Dixon.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

At last, Paul Storey is feeling real for me, although author Keith Dixon and his lead character are doing a cracking job of putting me off visiting Coventry! :) After the earlier disappointments of Storey and One Punch, I was really glad that the characters in The Song of Geneva Chance were believable and had more substance. The plot, whilst not fast-paced, is engaging and the cause of the murder, although hinted at, doesn't become apparent until right at the end when hidden truths are finally revealed. Altogether a convoluted tale that kept me interested enough to read through to the end almost non-stop.