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In May of 1968, New York City is broke and on the skids, and private eye Alex Novalis is hard up for gigs. So when he’s offered a case from wealthy construction mogul Gabriel Kravitz, he can’t refuse.
Kravitz’s eighteen-year-old daughter Lydia has gone missing. Though she’s presumed to be with Jerry Pedrosian, the radical middle-aged artist and known womanizer she’d been sleeping with, there are few clues. Information is hard to come by; everyone seems to be hiding something. And then there’s Andrea Marshall, Lydia’s miniskirted and vinyl-booted best friend, who Novalis is deeply distrustful of…and unfortunately attracted to.
But as Novalis traverses the city, tracking Lydia from scummy artists’ lofts in pre-gentrified SoHo to luxury penthouses overlooking Central Park, he’ll face threats deadlier than any he signed on for.
Smart and sophisticated, Good Girl, Bad Girl provides a rare, fascinating snapshot of late 1960s New York City—a glimpse into the forbidden sex, politics, art, drugs, and counterculture violence that ran rampant in its once gloriously gritty streets.
- Sales Rank: #314377 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-06
- Released on: 2013-08-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
In Finch’s fun first mystery, set in 1968 New York City, PI Alex Novalis can thank his background as an art-fraud investigator for his introduction to entrepreneur Gabriel Kravitz. Kravitz, who’s made a fortune in the construction business, wants Novalis to find his missing 18-year-old daughter, Lydia, a freshman at a Vermont college. According to Lydia’s best friend, Andrea Marshall, the missing girl has been having an affair with painter Jerry Pedrosian, a 43-year-old lothario whose “happenings” get more attention than his art. Andrea turns out to be both seductive and secretive; Pedrosian proves elusive; and Lydia appears and disappears in tantalizing glimpses against a background of fairly innocent drug taking, civil rights struggles, and the teeming, steaming art scene of the day. Finch (Rainbow, a biography of Judy Garland) has created in Novalis a nice blend of old-school detective and softie, who makes the journey worthwhile, even if the overly complicated ending fizzles.
From Library Journal
PI Alex Novalis, formerly with the DA’s office but ousted for marijuana possession, specializes in art crimes. This time out, the crime involves the artist, not his work. Novalis is hired to find the missing 18-year-old daughter of Gabriel Kravitz, a wealthy New Yorker who strongly suspects celebrity artist Jerry Pedrosian of kidnapping Lydia. It all sounds a bit naive, but things weren’t all that liberated in 1968. At best, it was a time of changing morals and startling anger as exhibited by protests, assassinations, and bombings. Novalis makes the rounds, talking with his art dealer contacts, Lydia’s mother (whose story is vastly different from her husband’s), Lydia’s best friend Andrea, and Jerry’s relatives. But it’s not until someone tries to push him onto the subway tracks that Novalis recognizes that this case might be more volatile than he thought. VERDICT Finch’s background as an art historian (Image as Language; Chuck Close: Life) and expertise on the late 1960s art scene bring credibility and intrigue to a fairly predictable plot.
From Booklist
In 1968 New York, private eye Alex Novalis draws on his knowledge of the art world (acquired from his previous work with the DA’s fine-art fraud detail) to help wealthy Gabriel Kravitz find his 18-year-old daughter, Lydia, thought to be consorting with womanizing artist Jerry Pedrosian, 43. One of Novalis’ primary sources is Lydia’s dearest friend, Andrea Marshall, whom he finds both enticing and untrustworthy as he waffles in trying to determine which of the two is the good girl and which the bad girl. Early on, there’s a nice air of insouciance in this debut novel, even as Novalis is warned off the hunt by being shot at in a bad neighborhood in Brooklyn, being pushed off a subway platform, and receiving explicit messages. Things get more serious as the climax approaches, with certain unsavory truths revealed and the body count going up. An artist himself, Finch has an eye for this time and place, plus a protagonist in 29-year-old Alex Novalis who could signal the start of a promising series. --Michele Leber
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Solid noir novel
By Alan A. Elsner
I like a book that delivers what it promises and this hard-boiled thriller in this tradition of Ross MacDonald and Raymond Chandler does just that.
We're in New York City in 1968 - a time when crime is rampant, neighborhoods that are today long gentrified were dangerous drug-infested swamps and racial tension pervaded the city. Private eye Alex Novalis specializes in art. A former cop, he's been drummed out of the force for some ethical corner-cutting. Right at the start of the book, the author catches the noirish tone just right: 'My hutch was on the third floor. If you cracked the solitary window open, you were overwhelmed by the aroma of sweet-and-sour-pork deep fried in peanut oil that should have been thrown out before Mao set out on the Long March."
What I like about this perfect sentence is that not only can you smell that aroma but that the metaphor is original, witty and culturally relevant to the time. And in fact, the author catches 1968 and puts it in a bottle. All the newspaper headlines, the backround music, the ambience are just right.
Here's another example: "I heard him before I saw him, a pastrami sandwich of a voice, cured with plenty of garlic somewhere in the shtetl that once clustered around the Grand Concourse." It's easy to imitate Chandler. It's much harder to bring your own original voice to a genre that has long ago slipped into self-parody. So regardless of the plot and characters there's a lot of pleasure to be had from the language and imagery of this book.
At one point, facing a buxom matron offering her considerable body for his enjoyment, Novalis muses that his "honorary membership of the Philip Marlowe Hardboiled but Strictly Ethical Order of Investigative Chivalry" was on the line. It's tongue in cheek moment from an author clearly having a lot of fun. Then Novalis porks the lady in a horse-drawn carriage trotting around Central Park by moonlight.
Novalis is hired by a building mogul to find his 18-year-old daughter who has disappeared with a disreputable artist. The detective seems pretty clueless for much of the book but falls in with the girl's 18-year-old roommate, a sexy siren who is half vamp, half little-lost girl. We're not quite sure. The trail grows hotter and colder. Someone tries to push Novalis under a train in the subway and someone else, or maybe the same someone, clubs him on the head while he's searching a loft. Explosives seem to be involved a plot that never quite comes into focus -- but it doesn't matter because we're too busy enjoying our time trip back to a crappy year in the company of an artist with words.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
1968, New York City
By E. B. MULLIGAN
Before it was The Big Apple, when the streets of NYC were gritty, even in Time Square and SoHo.
Private eye Alex Novalis is a 29 year old with an attitude and the story is told by him.
Gabriel Kravitz is a powerful construction mogul. His 18 year old daughter, Lydia, is MIA. She is a college freshman in Vermont.
Jerry Pedrosian, is the radical artist, a womanizer & 43 year old she's been shacked up with.
Andrea Marshall, is Lydia's 18 year old BFF. PI Novalis doesn't trust Andrea, but he wouldn't mind bedding her.
Basically the dregs of NY at it's scummiest.
The author lived in NYC during the time period of the novel so he knows the setting well.
Terrific ending - will look for this author's next novel
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Mystery Set In 1968 Manhattan
By Susan K. Schoonover
The best thing about the short crime novel GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL is author Christopher Finch authentic (or at least it seems authentic to me ) setting of the art/counterculture scene in 1968 Manhattan. The hero and narrator of the book twenty-nine year old Alex Novalis used to be an investigator with the DA's office specializing in art fraud but apparently lost that gig because of his fondness for marijuana an interest that is mentioned often throughout the story. Novalis is now on his own as a private investigator and GOOD GIRL,BAD GIRL follows a case where he is searching for the missing eighteen year old daughter of a wealthy businessman. Since the missing girl, Lydia, was known to be involved with a middle aged artist, Noivalis is able to use his connections in the art world to aid him in his search .
GOOD GIRL, BAD GIRL is definitely written in the style of the crime noir genre. Narrator Novalis uses many colorful metaphors and similes throughout the novel. Some of these literary devices work and others not so much. While I like the creative background for the protagonist and admire the well realized and utilized setting this in the end is really just a very average crime thriller.
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