Fever

This entry in the adventures of the Nameless Detective Agency features cases gripped by two kinds of fevers. First, there is Janice Krochek, a woman gripped by the fever of online gambling. Her husband Mitchell wants her found, and Nameless easily finds her, but she refuses to return home. Soon afte......more

Pronzini's Nameless detective now has a name (Bill) as well as a young, black female partner, Tamara, and an associate, an ex-cop named Jake. Nameless narrates the bulk of the story and remains its moral center, but Tamara and Jake each have a significant part of the action told from their respectiv......more

Excellent. Entertaining and well written.......more

This late entry in the Nameless Detectiver (actually, he's called "Bill", presumably after the author's name) series is a winner. I'll admit a fondness for the series going back to the first titles. If that's a biased view, so be it. The "fever" is the online gambling addiction that compulsive types......more

This wasn't the typical NAMELESS book. Normally Pronzini writes in first person point of view exclusively. In this one he's chosen to use that, but to also use third person for two other secondary characters. I could've skipped those chapters because they did nothing to add to the case. It took away......more