Book Review: Angel with a Bullet (A Dixie Flynn Mystery) by M.C. Grant

Angel with a Bullet (A Dixie Flynn Mystery) is written by M.C. Grant, who is a pseudonym for Grant McKenzie. According to his Amazon.com bio, he's "an award-winning screenwriter, editor, and novelist. He is the author of Switch and No Cry for Help (both published by Bantam TransWorld UK)." I am unfamiliar with his work. 

I understand why he used a pseudonym for this book; it wasn't very good. It was just okay. Certainly not good enough to put his own "award-winning" name to it. I had to make it through 75% of the book [per my Kindle] before I started to like any of it. Then, I enjoyed the rest. Although, the ending was a bit over the top.  

The main character is Dixie Flynn, a investigative journalist in San Francisco. I could tell it was definitely written by a man. In the books I've read recently, a man writing a female lead character have no idea how women think, feel or act. I could provide vulgar examples from the book, but I won't. It's rather crass.

I preferred reading about Frank, a homicide detective and a secondary character. Actually, when I finished reading the book yesterday, I thought I would read the next book [not yet published] to see if it's worth the time to continuing reading. Today, after giving it some thought, I'm not going to read any more of this series. I would like to follow the stories of others in the book but not enough to read through Dixie's adventures too.

It wasn't bad, but I can't recommend it either. Read at your own risk.