REVIEW

Review - MISTER RAINBOW IN THE CASE OF THE COCK ROBIN KILLER, C.S. Boag

Reviewed By
Karen Chisholm

Number 5 in the Rainbow series, and THE CASE OF THE COCK ROBIN KILLER might be blue about lots of things, but it won't make you blue to read it. In fact you'll probably find yourself snorting with laughter, or at least rolling your eyes as the puns fly left, right and centre.

The reader of any of my earlier reviews of this wonderfully silly, oddball series will know that I'm a bit of a fan. They are the sorts of books that you pick up late on a Sunday afternoon when you just want to be amused, and not think about the ills of the world. Obviously they are meant to be slightly tongue-in-cheek, and you must read them in that manner (after all our hero's name is Rainbow!) but there is sufficient hat-tips to the standard noir sensibilities that make you realise it's done with huge affection. 

Given those hat-tips, there's a slightly damaged (and now reformed) sidekick; a beautiful woman as a colleague; and there's thugs, photographers and a mildly alarming build up of bodies. There's wisecracks, and a tendency for Rainbow to have been there, done that, lost the t-shirt in a card game. Definitely one to put aside for one of those Sunday reading sessions.

BOOK DETAILS
BOOK INFORMATION
Author
ISBN
9781922057884
Year of Publication
Series
Book Number (in series)
5
BLURB

Rainbow's got the blues. His girlfriend's dumped him; his assassin mate Rory's found God; his Aunt Rube's as sick as a bad joke; and his ex-wife's thrown up a barricade - all right, a cordon bleu - around his daughter Imogene.

So when a snake's let loose in a laboratory, his ballet teacher's under siege and a nasty little joker by the name of Cock Robin cops it, Rainbow climbs into the ring because it's his job - but also because he needs the distraction.

In the red corner he finds an unpredictable dame called Tsunami; a crooked cop; a tough -as-granite developer; a politician; a couple of thugs; a paparazzo; and too many bodies.

While in the blue corner- yeah, that's Rainbow's-there's just two dames in distress and a bald journo. The clue is blue. But is that the moody blues, blue blood, a bad blue, a stoush - or just plain old fashioned blue murder.

Review Review - MISTER RAINBOW IN THE CASE OF THE COCK ROBIN KILLER, C.S. Boag
Karen Chisholm
Monday, June 29, 2015
Blog Currently Reading - Mister Rainbow in the Case of the Cock Robin Killer, C.S. Boag
Karen Chisholm
Monday, June 22, 2015
Review Review - Mr Rainbow Series, C.S. Boag
Karen Chisholm
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Add new comment

This is a book review site, with no relationship whatsoever with any of the authors mentioned here.

We do not provide a method for you to contact authors for any reason and comments of this nature are automatically deleted.

This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.