Ouroboros

by Andrew Davie

McGill and Gropper work as unlicensed PIs operating out of a diner in Charleston, South Carolina. McGill, a former police officer now incredibly out of shape, rarely leaves the diner and has a fondness for pancakes, bacon, and coffee. Gropper is well versed in fighting, tactics, and has a mysterious past. Together, they make an imposing team. Most of their business is small time allowing them to stay off law enforcement’s radar. One of their specialties is the returning of stolen goods and property to the rightful owner. McGill and Gropper take almost any job and are willing to break the rules to get these jobs done. As they conduct business, someone from McGill’s past returns to enact revenge.

83 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2020

About the author

Andrew Davie has worked in theater, finance, and education. He taught English in Macau on a Fulbright Grant and has survived a ruptured brain aneurysm and subarachnoid hemorrhage. in January 2022, he'll begin a Clinical Mental Health MA program.

Reviews

[Scott Cumming · Rating 4 out of 5]

Davie's private eye pairing McGill and Gropper return in Ouroboros dealing with somebody out to settle an old score.

Davie is meticulous in building his plot and characters as always and writes brilliant stretches about our antagonist. We learn a bit more about McGill's past in this one, while Gropper is still the hammer drop.

The ending crept up on me as I forgot about the previews at the back of the book. This is a short follow up that whets the appetite for further Gropper and McGill adventures, but I do worry for McGill's health with all that diner food he's eating. I don't know what a deluxe pizza burger is, but I can feel my arteries clogging just reading the name.

[Ross Cumming · Rating 4 out of 5]

P.I. duo Gropper and McGill are new to me and this is a short story of revenge involving someone from McGill’s past. Davie builds the story up nicely and has a kind of no nonsense writing style where even the violence just sounds matter of fact. He tells the story from both McGill and Gropper’s viewpoint and also from Mark’s, the avenger. We get a little bit of their backstory too and also there’s a nice bit of humour where Gropper’s new domestic arrangements see him playing a lot of ‘hide and seek’ ! An interesting pair of detectives where McGill appears to be the brains to Gropper’s brawn and I look forward to reading more of their escapades.

[JansRoots · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! I want another one!

Great characters. I love the development of Gropper with the little girl. And it feels like there is another coming, because there's an unfinished thread.

I look forward to the next one!