Detective Inspector Christy Kennedy of Camden Town CID is an irish, tea-drinking detective who invariably gets his man. We return to the music business that gave his first outing I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass such an authorative tone. The author is a music agent and you can tell he knows his subject inside out. The story concerns the murder of a seventies rock star, attempting a comeback at the real life Dingwalls dancehall at Camden Lock. There are more suspects than Kennedy would like even before his interfering newspaper woman girlfriend sticks her nose in and points out where the DI is going wrong. Of course, we're meant to like ann rea, but I hate her. She's only there to add romantic interest, like in all those soppy made-for-TV movies Channel 5 keep showing. But regardless of her, this is a great detective book set in a part of London that's crying out for a detective series. Now that Colin Dexter has stopped writing about Morse, it looks as though Kennedy is tailor-made for filling his brogues.