Sal Kilkenny of Manchester established a private
investigation business under the auspices of an employment
project of the British equivalent of the Small Business
Administration. _Stone Cold Red Hot_ details how she manages
to rent a large, comfortable house and arrange childcare for
her sometimes odd hours on her modest income (has a co-tenant
as well as a roomer) and acquire office space (rents a
neighbor's basement).
Her cases are on a small scale, too.
In this book, she looks for a man's older sister, who went
off to college decades ago and vanished, and she is hired by
a government social agency to amass evidence against some
neo-Nazi thugs who are harassing a Somali refugee family in
public housing.* The appalling outcomes of her cases are made
all the more horrifying by Sal's matter-of-fact voice and her
step-by-step approach.
Joy, who wonders if any Britnoir is set in Aberdeen
*I'm getting the overall impression from these books so far
that a great deal--most?--living quarters in the UK are
public housing. Also, both PIs I read are female.
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