Armstead Maupin meets Carl Hiaasen in a brilliant black comedy set in New York
Cyrus - is a millionaire recluse. Oh and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and Susie Niedermeyer, a newly married couple who knew apartment hunting in New York would be hell, they just didn't think it would end their short lives.
Tye - is a beautiful young woman from London, who imagines she can trade her cover-girl looks for a free stay in a downtown loft.
Quinn - is a writer who's out of ideas and running out of luck. He wants to keep a foothold in Manhattan without losing his shirt - and his girlfriend.
Marion Neidermeyer - is a determined mother, dead set on hunting down her vanished son and daughter-in-law.
Hell's Kitchen, Chris Niles
From the book:
"Cyrus - is a millionaire recluse. Oh and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and Susie Niedermeyer, a newly married couple who knew apartment hunting in New York would be hell, they just didn't think it would end their short lives.
Tye - is a beautiful young woman from London, who imagines she can trade her cover-girl looks for a free stay in a downtown loft.
Quinn - is a writer who's out of ideas and running out of luck. He wants to keep a foothold in Manhattan without losing his shirt - and his girlfriend.
Marion Neidermeyer - is a determined mother, dead set on hunting down her vanished son and daughter-in-law".
Now it's obvious that Cyrus and Marion are going to be connected in some way, seeing as how Cyrus has killed her son, but the other two? Well devise a madcap romp with a distinctly lunatic self-involved cast of characters and it seems you can pull it off - quite believably.
Loved this one :)