MURDER ON THE DODDER - Keith Bruton
I only just learned, as I went to grab the cover of the book to post on the blog, that this book is a follow-up to another volume ( The Lemon Man ). This definitely explains some of the questions I had (or at least I hope the previous volume would explain some of my questions). But as to what, exactly, he does, is addressed pretty directly. Patrick Callen is a hitman. Every year the prisons release a dozen or so killers back onto the streets. The average life sentence is about eighteen years. Not much of a life sentence. That’s where I come in. I get paid to kill these scumbags. I’ve been a hit man for ten years and that’s what pays the bills. It’s no nine-to-five job, far from it, but I’m the best in the country at it. Now, ask yourself the question, if someone close to you got hurt, abused, or murdered by some lowlife, wouldn’t you want them dead? Good at what he does, with no emotional tie to those he bumps off (or tortures), he gets around by bicycle and, because of his OCD, make