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Too Beautiful to Die by
Glenville Lovell
Rating:
 PENS!!!!
Too Wonderful
for Words
This past year I
decided to take a deeper look at the crime fiction genre. After reading
Glenville Lovell’s Too Beautiful to Die I’ve fallen in love with it. At first
I thought it was my penchant for bad guys gone good with harboring bad
tendency issues that drew me into detective novels. You know the Axel Foley,
Shaft, or Easy Rowlins kind of fellow. While reading this book for the second
time, however, I found brilliance to Lovell’s work and a greater respect for
the genre.
Lovell builds a bombshell of a who-done-it, and at the same time enlightens
the reader about Caribbean American Immigration History, a subject matter that
hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.
Blades Overstreet, a black ex-NYPD cop obligates himself to a gorgeous soap
star, appropriately named Precious, as a favor to Jimmy Lucas, the man who had
saved his life. Precious wants to know the identity of her father and someone
is willing to tell her who he is for $50,000, so Blades offers his protective
services to assist her with this transaction. When they both find their
contact, who unbeknownst to them is an ex-FBI agent, dead in his apartment,
Blades realizes that this small favor has turned into one huge mess. And if
things couldn’t get worse for Blades, Precious is found dead in his apartment.
How will Blades clear his name? Who killed Precious and why? Most importantly,
who was Precious' father?
This novel will have you up all night trying to get to the truth. You will not
skip to the back of the book to find out, because each chapter is so
interwoven into the end and so well written you will not want to miss a clue
or a thought. Blades is the hero of the twenty-first century, and I hope they
make this novel into a movie. Look what "Devil in a Blue Dress: The Movie" did
for Walter Mosley’s Easy Rowlins.
I recommend this book to my brother, my daddy, and any man, who shies from
reading. I recommend this book to any woman wanting to know the intricacies of
the African-American male psyche. I recommend this book to anyone who just
wants a really good read. This book is off the chisel.
Too Beautiful… receives 5 pens because it is too wonderful for words. It is an
instant classic. The way Lovell melts landscape into philosophy is superb. I
must have this in hardback, so Lovell can get more cheddar. He deserves it.
Dee Y.
Stewart
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