Death on Sunset by Barry Norman
The razor-sharp third and final novel in beloved BBC film critic Barry Norman’s hard-boiled “Bobby Lennox” series, a story the Birmingham Post says “positively glitters. Gorgeously entertaining.”
London boxer-turner-fixer Bobby Lennox is sent to Hollywood as an “associate producer” by a crime boss to oversee his investment in a troubled, big-budget movie. The trouble is that the Mafia-controlled studio is trying to muscle in on the action…and it isn’t long before bodies start dropping and Bobby has to stop the bloodshed…while also keeping the cameras rolling.
“With sex, violence, dialogue-with-attitude, and a cast list to die for, this is in the Oscar class.” Northern Echo
“Barry Norman, he of the sardonic film reviews, effects a neat, hard-boiled narrative voice in this fluffy crime thriller.” The Evening Standard
Books by Barry Norman
Death on Sunset
The razor-sharp third and final novel in beloved BBC film critic Barry Norman's hard-boiled "Bobby Lennox" series, a story the Birmingham Post says "positively glitters. Gorgeously entertaining."
London boxer-turner-fixer Bobby Lennox is sent to Hollywood as an "associate producer" by a crime boss to oversee his investment in a troubled, big-budget movie.
The Butterfly Tattoo
The second wild and witty "Bobby Lennox" adventure by legendary UK TV host and critic Barry Norman.
Bobby Lennox is an ex-boxer, reluctant "fixer," and a struggling London entrepreneur who does favors for Donovan, a crime boss angling for respectability. One way Donovan hopes to get it is by helping Archie Beckway, a womanizing, corrupt politician who is being blackmailed by three people dressed as Disney characters... one of whom has a butterfly tattoo on her shapely leg. But the assignment isn't as clear-cut as it seems, and twists right back to Donovan's doorstep.
The Birddog Tape
Cockney ex-boxer Bobby Lennox agrees to do a favor for an aging hitman, who is going into the hospital for an emergency hernia operation, so he can't meet his mysterious new client. So Bobby goes in his place, just to get the details for his friend, and soon finds himself on his way to Hollywood to kill a movie producer and his wife... an ex-hooker who happens to be Bobby's former girlfriend. And things only get worse from there.
To Nick a Good Body
An authentic and outrageously funny police procedural in the tradition of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels... from legendary BBC host and critic Barry Norman.
Detective Inspector Nicholas Redford works in the "I" Division, a notoriously understaffed and and overworked part of the Metropolitan Police that handles all types of crime in their 100 miles square mile patch of London, but are lucky, given their lack of resources, if they can solve less than half of their cases.
Reviews For Death on Sunset
With sex, violence, dialogue-with-attitude, and a cast list to die for, this is in the Oscar class.
Barry Norman, he of the sardonic film reviews, effects a neat, hard-boiled narrative voice in this fluffy crime thriller.
