Relief Valve, by J L Merrow
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Relief Valve, by J L Merrow
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If you dig up the past, be prepared to get dirty. The Plumber's Mate, Book 2 It hasn't been all smooth sailing since plumber Tom Paretski and P.I. Phil Morrison became connected at the heart, if not always at Tom's dodgy hip. Neither of their families has been shy about voicing their disapproval, which hasn't helped Tom's uneasy relationship with his prickly older sister, Cherry. But when Cherry is poisoned at her own engagement party, the horror of her near death has Tom's head spinning with possible culprits. Is it her fiancé Gregory, a cathedral canon with an unfortunate manner and an alarming taste for taxidermy? Someone from her old writers' circle, which she left after a row? Or could the attack be connected to her work as a barrister? Phil is just as desperate to solve the case before someone ends up dead-and he fears it could be Tom. At least one of their suspects has a dark secret to hide, which makes Tom's sixth sense for finding things like a target painted on his back... Warning: Contains a strong, silent, macho PI; a cheeky, chirpy, cat-owning plumber; and a gag gift from beyond the grave that'll put the cat firmly among the pigeons.
Relief Valve, by J L Merrow- Amazon Sales Rank: #2493366 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .69" w x 5.51" l, .86 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 306 pages
Review 2015 EPIC Ebook Awards Finalist, Mystery I liked the first book Pressure Head but I absolutely adored this awesome sequel ...I can absolutely recommend Relief Valve - 5 stars, Mandy, Hearts on Fire Reviews This book has just rocked my socks! WOW - LOVED IT!!!! Tom Paretski has just become one of my all time favourite characters- 5 stars, Mark, Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews grab yourself a biccie and a cuppa, come for the mystery, stay for the humor - 5 stars, Lisa Horan, The Novel Approach
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Perfect JL Merrow Book By Alan Arthur Katz I'm often conflicted when I need to decide how many stars to give a book. But not with any JL Merrow book. I'd give this one six stars if I could.Not only is she a brilliant writer, she's a gentle soul and a gifted creator of engaging characters.Relief Valve is another in this wonderful series, now, apparently called "The Plumber's Mate". For those of you who haven't yet read either of them yet, these books are about a British plumber (Tom), who has a very special psychic gift - he can find things. He can follow the emotional path of the person who hid whatever it was and locate something missing. The local police use his talents to find missing children and dead bodies, which, while torturous to him, brings peace and closure to the victims' survivors and many a murderer to justice. In the rest of his time, he uses his abilities to find leaks, making him a really great (if not prepossessing) plumber.Tom has an ongoing relationship with Phil, a private detective, who was also a terrible bully he's known since he was a kid. In fact, it was while running away from Phil that Tom got hit by a car, spent a year convalescing and still suffers from a dodgy hip.They met up, years later, as adults, and Phil admits that he gave Tom such a hard time because he was so attracted to him, and didn't want to be gay. Of course, they become lovers.The murder mystery in this book is not exactly Agatha Christie, but it's used to propel the development of Phil and Tom's relationship and introduce us to Tom's sister, who is a successful barrister, and victim of an attempted murder. Add a whole bunch of local literary types, an overgrown church Canon engaged to the sister and the recurring friends of Tom - Gary, an effeminate, over the top, perfectly wonderful character, and Gary's lover, a 4' 6" ex-porn-star, Darren.There are points at which I laughed out loud, others that made my eyes will up, but, typical of a JL Merrow book, not a moment in which I was bored. In fact, I'm almost sorry the book had to end. I look forward to the next Plumber's Mate book with bated breath. I'd pre-order anything this amazingly talented writer publishes. I think I've already read everything available on Amazon!If you haven't read Merrow before, I suggest you start this series with "Pressure Head" to get the whole back story of Tom and Phil. "Relief Valve" is fine, on its own, but even better if you read the earlier book first.What I love is Merrow's astonishing way with words, her ease, precision, spot-on humor - it's just a true pleasure to read her writing. If you love well-written, non-formula gay fiction, don't miss this book - or any other JL Merrow book!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention By Elisa I loved this story, and soon got swept up in its pages. The characters were three dimensional and I got invested in them quickly. Loved the British feel of it, which came across with the language and setting. The first person narration worked well for the story, and the writing style flowed smoothly and was a joy to read.First of all, let me start by saying that I have not read the first book in this series, a lack that I intend to rectify once I've finished reading for the awards this year. However, as my job is to judge this book alone on its merits, I have to say that not reading the first did not at all hinder my enjoyment of this one. I also greatly appreciated that the author made no attempt to "recap,", which I always find a clumsy device. Of necessity, this meant that Tom's ability to "find" things was taken casually here as a given (I am assuming it was fully explored in book 1), which was a little peculiar, but I did like the way it was ultimately integrated into the main plot(s). As a reader, I fell like a ton of bricks for our first person narrator's prosaic charm and his relations with pretty much everyone, from eccentric clients to family to lover, which also had the benefit of setting up the plot perfectly and believably. Although I did not get to know Phil in as great detail, given our narrator's (adorable) angst over where their relationship was heading, I found this appropriate. The mysteries were executed in a natural and fully fleshed out way, and they interacted very well together to form a bigger puzzle for the reader. In the end, I did feel that we were left with more questions, but as this book is clearly part of a series, these lingering issues didn't bother me so much, as I felt they were in part set up for the third book (which I will definitely also be reading). This book was a beautifully entertaining and well-crafted work.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Book two is every bit as good as book one. By Ulysses Dietz Relief Valve (Plumber’s Mate #2)Imagine, if you will, Miss Marple in her little village, puttering about, getting into people’s business as she learns about human nature. Except that Miss is a Mister. And a plumber. And gay. And hot. And psychic.I loved the first book in this series—Pressure Head. I recall, however, that it was rather darker than book 2—all that unhappy childhood memory, not to mention the sudden reappearance of Phil Morrison in Tom Paretski’s painstakingly repaired young life. Some of it was harrowing.Relief Valve is more light-hearted, as well as more nuanced in the way Merrow metes out shivery little clues about personalities and relationships. And, let me make this clear: this book is all about relationships—the very core of every part of this book is relationships. Not just between Tom and Phil, but between and among the intriguing buffet of small-town characters with which the author presents us.Tom and Phil are doing their own manly-man dance of love, and it is both frustrating and adorable to watch. Then there’s Tom’s big sister, Cherry, an up-and-coming suburban lawyer who takes a dim view of both her little brother’s down-scale career and his former-hoodlum boyfriend from the wrong side of town. Watching Cherry and Tom and Phil do their own do-si-do as they all begin to understand each other is quite beautiful to behold.And of course there’s the eerily Reverend Gregory Titmus, the poetic, dark-eyed Raz Nair, and all of the other denizens of the various little picturesque townships joined by motorways that Miss Marple never dreamed of in her wanderings about St. Mary Mead.This is the modern world, with archetypal England alive and well at its center. For an American reader, it is a delight, as is Merrow’s precisely crafted language and gift of wit.Because the book is damn funny. Tom is irritating in his defensiveness and his macho fear of emotions. His blue-collar slang is pointedly in contrast with his sister’s professional lingo; while Phil slides back and forth in accent and vocabulary, a council-estate yob in a cashmere sweater. Delicious.Class and geography matter in ways to the British that continue to baffle and fascinate Americans, and I confess to being charmed in exactly the way I was by the dozens of Agatha Christie novels I’ve read in my lifetime. It is astonishing how much happens in a small geographic area in a short amount of time. Merrow keeps her characters and her voices spinning about us, while never taking the sharper focus off of the couple at the center. With red herrings and misdirection she keeps us bemused until the very end, when she not only reveals the culprit, but leaves the reader realizing that all of the relationships in the book have shifted and have become something new and better than they were before.Well, most of them.Ultimately, there’s plenty left over for book three. I wonder what plumbing metaphor she’ll come up with for that? Can’t wait to find out.
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