London Calling - Book #3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles [Paperback]

Deborah Grabien (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2010

Newlywed superstar guitarist JP Kinkaid and his wife, Bree, head off to London for their honeymoon. The trip should be idyllic: take care of personal business in London, record a few songs, relax.

Their honeymoon gets sidetracked when legendary director Sir Cedric Parmeley enters his 25-year-old rockumentary Playing in the Dark into competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and asks Blacklight to perform a free show at Frejus, near Cannes, to support it.

But the film Parmeley screens the night before the Festival opens is not the film the band approved. In that ninety minutes of footage is evidence of an old hate crime, the only kind for which there's no statute of limitations.

The men who perpetrated that crime have been hiding in plain sight in beautiful Provence. Their leader is a revenant from Homicide Lieutenant Patrick Ormand's past. And Ormand will stop at nothing to take him down--even if it means putting the band in the crosshairs of a sniper's scope on the red carpet at Cannes.

--Publisher's Rear Cover Description

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

The title of Grabien’s third entry in her rock ’n’ roll mystery series, The JP Kincaid Chronicles, is a tip of the hat to the politically charged music of the English punk-rock band The Clash. A hate crime now decades old is at the center of the events that have drawn JP’s enormously successful band, Blacklight, to the Cannes Film Festival. Eccentric film producer Sir Cedric Parmeley has entered his music documentary into the competition and asked Blacklight to perform a free concert. In Cannes, however, the band realizes the film Parmeley intends to show is not the version they approved. In addition, scenes depicting a vicious attack on a Pakistani youth by the roadies of another band have stirred the anger of an old hate group. Also front and center in the novel is JP and his wife Bree’s relationship, one of the most appealing aspects of the previous two entries in the series. Unfortunately, their perfect love is not as interesting this time around. Still, fans of the series will want to tune in for the band’s latest doings. --Joanne Wilkinson

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Plus One Press; 1st edition (July 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0984436200
• ISBN-13: 978-0984436200
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,271,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Rock Life, With Humans, July 16, 2010

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Uncle Fox - See all my reviews

This review is from: London Calling - Book #3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles (Paperback)

Speaking as both a writer and a musician, I almost always avoid novels about writers and musicians like the latest flu virus. But Deborah Grabien's latest entry in her series of mysteries centering around the world and the members of an English rock band not only keeps up her usually classy standard, but elevates it a notch. This one's a genuine thriller, at once scarily suspenseful and filled with remarkable insights into both musicians and their fans. Her narrative style never falters, and neither does her precise understanding of the costs and trade-offs of the touring life. And her narrator - the aging, MS-plagued guitarist J.P. Kinkaid - remains as good and painfully honest company as ever. It's best (though not absolutely necessary, by any means) to start at the beginning of the series, with ROCK AND ROLL NEVER FORGETS - but at all events, don't miss this one!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nicely done!, July 15, 2010

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mark karan (fairfax, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: London Calling - Book #3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles (Paperback)

ms. grabien has done it again with the latest installment in the kinkaid chronicles. truthfully i'd enjoy reading about JP, bree and the blacklight clan without benefit of the murder mystery! the backstage and behind the scenes access is always fascinating and authentic and i've come to love the characters. they're like real people... people i know and care about. when you add the author's engaging story telling, full of cool twists and revelations... here's me hungrily awaiting number four.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JP Kinkaid rocks, July 15, 2010

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G. DeCandido "LadyHawk" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: London Calling - Book #3 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles (Paperback)

There is a twisted murder mystery at the heart of the latest JP Kinkaid, London Calling, a fair amount about Cannes and what goes into Blacklight's appearance there, and the parts many of us love most about rock and roll and inside, backstage. But what's really gorgeous about the third in Grabien's series is how completely it lets us inside of John's head. He's a guy, a rock and roll guy, he's famous, he's over 50, and he's got ms. He also has just married Bree, the woman he's loved for decades, and he's trying to figure out her, and his feelings, and her devotion, and her strength. But he's a guy, and there's a lot of scary stuff going on. Grabien lets us know completely how hard it is for him to work this out without dumbing him down or making him silly.
I can hardly for the next one.