Ever wonder what happens at those messy crime scenes when the police are finished and everything’s been wrapped up? Ever wonder what kind of person comes in to remove all that nasty residue, scrub the blood off the walls, scoop up all the dislodged pieces of--- Well, I’ll just leave it at that.
But you do wonder, don’t you?
Just ask Webster (Web) Fillmore Goodhue, former Los Angeles elementary school teacher, current slacker. A slacker, that is, until he stumbles upon some good, not-so-honest, not-so-clean work with a small but incredibly efficient company called Clean Team. Initially Web isn’t so jazzed about the job. After all, he’s still suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder (From being an elementary school teacher? Are you kidding me? No, I’m not.), still has lousy relationships with just about everyone in his life, but discovers that he’s really good at cleaning up---uh, stuff. Then, unfortunately, some really nasty stuff starts happening: turf wars against a rival “cleaning” company, hijackings, smugglings, beatings, murders... For a former elementary school teacher, Web is in way over his head. Or is he?
You’ll probably enjoy The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death if you like:
Hard-boiled fiction
Dark humor
Fast-paced, dialogue-driven fiction
Pretty gory descriptions
But in the midst of all of the above, in between all the f-bombs and beatings, you might just find a story of genuine humanity. Recommended.
(The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death was an advance reader copy provided by Amazon's Vine program.)
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