Kyd for Hire

Thomas Kyd Investigates - Book 2

‘A new talent has come through the door, gun in hand...’ The Guardian

From the moment that the millionaire Joe Elevel enters the LA office of private detective Thomas Kyd, Kyd knows that this investigation will prove a little more challenging than the divorce cases from which he’s been making a living.

Elevel’s high-society world has crumbled. His genteel, philanthropic wife is dead by suicide, and the note she left behind hints at a terrible crime. ‘Charlotte knows’ she states...

But Charlotte – the Elevel’s daughter – has disappeared.

The case proves to be far more than just a family affair, however. Three days later Kyd finds himself dealing with ‘one suicide, three murders, and a case that had about as much symmetry as a half-digested pizza…’ and searching the darkest corners of the city to find the answers.

With both the bribe-taking Deputy Chief Granville and a professional hitman with no fingerprints working against him, solving the mystery proves a high-risk endeavour.

Even for tough, straight-talking Kyd, downtown Los Angeles has never been hotter, dirtier or more dangerous.

Kyd For Hire is a brilliant detective story that draw on the traditions of classic noir fiction

Praise for Timothy Harris

"No one since Chandler has captured the excess that is L.A. as well as Harris." - Robert A. Baker & Michael T. Nietzel, from Private Eyes; One Hundred and One Knights, A Survey of American Detective Fiction 1922-1984

"Tim Harris burns down the fences separating genre lit from the serious stuff. His great creation, Thomas Kyd...makes a welcome return in this superb book that sets a fresh standard for the field. Tim Harris is writing better than ever." - Jay Cocks, screenwriter, Gangs of New York

"At long last, someone has hit the bull's-eye dead center...Tim Harris has succeeded in bringing Chandler's vision to bear upon a more frightening time than even Marlowe may have been able to stomach." - New West Magazine

"The best of its kind...a must....Goodnight and Goodbye has something for every hard-boiled fan...a strong blending of all the classical elements that earmark the true private eye tale." - Mystery Magazine

Timothy Harris was born in Los Angeles and attended schools in Africa, Europe and New York. His later education was at Charterhouse and Peterhouse College, Cambridge. His three L.A. crime novels featuring Thomas Kyd are considered some of the finest of the genre. Harris' has had an equally successful career as a producer and screenwriter of numerous films including Trading Places, Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Space Jam, and Falling Down. He now lives in London with his family.