METER MAIDS EAT THEIR YOUNG
EJ Knapp
Parking
meters, the bane of every driver’s existence, could prove fatal for
Teller, an award-winning investigative journalist. Returning to his home
town after a twenty-year absence, Teller investigates the mysterious
appearance of the Meter Mangler, a hooded vandal who is trashing parking
meters. The Mangler is fast becoming a local hero to the town, a town
being crushed beneath the oppressive thumb of the Department of Parking
Enforcement.
With
the death of his best friend, Teller turns his attention to the
secretive DPE, a government entity which exacts Draconian measures
against anyone unfortunate enough to need a parking space. Commuters are
in an uproar, businesses have fled and the downtown shopping area is a
ghost town. The people are up in arms. The town is a powder keg.
As
parking meters spring up everywhere, and uniformed thugs cruise the
streets in Cushman carts like hungry wolves seeking prey, Teller
struggles with the ghosts of his past and his growing attraction to his
blue-haired lodger while staying one step ahead of a growing threat to
his life.
If
you like Michael Connelly , Carl Hiaasen , Elmore Leonard, James Hall,
James Lee Burke you’ll enjoy EJ Knapp’s stylish, witty and engaging
style.
‘Hell,
it seems, is populated by corrupted politicians, bent businessmen and
meter maids. And a sorry place it will be. Knapp takes a swipe at the
tyranny of the state from a wholly unexpected angle. Fast and punchy, he
lambasts bureaucracies’ easy pillaging of our public spaces. Sometimes
the seemingly mundane has the ability to explode into murder and riotous
mayhem, to be investigated by a series of intriguing characters and
leaving a crumpled pile of official vehicles in its wake.’ – Andrew Brown, author of Inyenzi, Solace, Coldsleep Lullaby, Refuge and Street Blues.
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295 pages : 8 x 5 ins paperback
Target market: Thriller
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