I recently had to spend a bit of fill in time waiting for a car service to be completed, so I spent some time in the library. And started reading this book. It seemed churlish not to borrow it, but I've not had time to finish it since. So now I am.
From the Blurb:
Roy Angel is not a man for paperwork. He's never completed a risk assessment form in his life. NOw he's wishing he had - his life could depend on it ...
Opening Lines:
I'd never actually done an official risk assessment on how best to act when looking down the muzzle of a loaded gun being waved six inches under your nose. To be honest, I had never done a risk assessment on anything, which probably explained a lot about how my life had panned out so far.
Private detective Fitzroy Maclean Angel is not your ordinary private detective. The world he inhabits is strange and it is about to get stranger. A new born baby means no more cases, no more fingerprinting and no more espionage and, with the arrival of his aging, hippy mother, he has swapped bloodstains for paint stains. Domesticity, or the lack of it, has replaced his high-paced, crime-solving lifestyle. That is, of course, apart from the AWOL screenwriter whose mother s funeral he must attend.