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pretty rookie cop gets to work with an old jaded detective in an investigation of a serial killer, The ensuing events are remarkable, although some of the denouement felt off, Still, this was a very good mystery with interesting characters, Well written, Mr. Nersessian is excellent at providing a feel for New York City and its characters,

I enjoy Mr. Nersessian's work very much. This is the first time I've given a favorite author a goose egg,

There's a flair, an art, and even a bit of poetry to being a pastry chef, No pretense is made to fashion more "substantial" fare, New York writer Arthur Nersesian is one of the more talented practitioners around of the light and airy literary souffle, and I have loved him for that.
His tasty confections melt in your mouth, and if there are additional notes going down the throat, then all the better, His sweetness always comes with a little extra gravitas, But here, Nersesian goes for the stolid old main course of Beef Wellington, and I felt less nourished than if he'd just served up cotton candy.


Nersesian's usual shtick is young urban professionals usually underemployed and predictably snarky eking out a living in the Big Apple while stumbling out of and into love.
He's very good at this and I consider him among my favorite contemporary authors, He's not a breathless literary heavyweight, but when he's at his best his books are charming, funny and very smart, When Nersesian writes about New York City, you feel like you're right there on the pavement, And in this book, New York is again vibrant, and its denizens cognizant of the town's uniqueness,

In the case of Gladyss of the Hunt, our urban professional is the eponymousyearold heroine with the extra "s" to her name a tall, blonde, attractive rookie cop, who also is improbably a virgin.
The story takes place afterand on the eve of the Iraq War, Gladyss has been assigned her first homicide case under the tutelage of bedraggled veteran detective Bernie Farrell, a curmudgeonly abusive cop with a heart of gold who loves the nasty old New York ofyears ago and is nursing a bum leg gained from hazardous duty at the WTC onand unsuccessfully holding the lid on his inner demons.


This unlikely buddy cop duo explores the nooks and crannies of New York tracking down deadend leads while trying to stop a serial killer or killers who seem fixated on Marilyn Monroe or girls who resemble her.
The playground for these developments is an everchanging New York City, old hotels and new sleeker ones, slums and gentrifying blocks, where Gladyss and Bernie seem to represent different eras and attitudes, and where the killer seems to roam with uncanny ease.
Gladyss begins to believe the killings might be linked to Greek mythological visions she has had while in a yogainduced trance visions which seem to suggest she may be Diana the Huntress.
Clues found along the way seem to corroborate her metaphysical insights,

Along the way, Nersesian introduces us to his typical unlikely cast of characters: jaded NYC cops, movie and hangerson, a ditzy actress starfucker friend, and sketchy lowlife people from Bernie's past who seem like living ghosts and who harbor deep and disturbing secrets.
Potentially guilty parties include a Jude Lawlike movie stud, a director whose name sounds suspiciously like Quentin Tarantino, an old killer nemesis of Bernie's, Gladyss' wouldbe lover cop friend, O'Ryan, and several fringe denizens.
Hitchcocklike McGuffins are thrown in to create false leads and twists, And, with all the chaos going on, Gladyss seems hellbent on losing her virginity,

For most readers, all of this might sound pretty good, and from the reviews I've read on here, the majority seems pleased with the results.
But to state a strong bias up front, I have no interest in police procedurals, and this is Nersesian doing a police procedural, and I found it labored.


Within the straitjacket of the genre conventions of the police procedural, Nersesian strains to afford his characters and situations his usual deftness of touch, and he just doesn't succeed.
Nersesian is best taken when he lets his characters run wild in loose, freeform plots driven by silly deus ex machina and running gags.
That bag of tricks is emptied but smothered in the story, and the humor is neutered by the imperatives of the plot,

Most readers, I think, require more plot than I do, and maybe Nersesian, knowing the mass preference for formula plotting, is giving it to them, in the form of a popular and reliable crimefiction genre.
Maybe Nersesian wanted to make a little more money this time instead of being pegged as a New York cult writer with a limited coterie of devotees.
It's possibly a good move for him, especially if the book gets optioned as a series or a screenplay, Gladyss seems consciously devised as a vehicle for Charlize Theron or a similar blonde beauty of tall stature, But, for me, this book is a step backward in terms of accomplishment,

Nevertheless, Nersesian does have legitimate, and even poignant things to say about the homogenization of culture, the Disneyfication of not just New York but all places that cling tenuously to the things that make them unique.


It seems to me that Nersesian worked harder on this than any of his other books, I wish he hadn't worked so hard, If Nersesian does more genre books, I'll likely avoid them,

KevinRKy

Nersesian so far the first four on this list are easily recommendable:
The FuckUp
Chinese Takeout
Dogrun
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Suicide Casanova
Manhattan Loverboy
Gladyss of the Hunt As always, Arthur Nersesian does a solid job crafting an interesting narrative.
New York is always his unspoken lead character, and the time period described was so spoton, realistic and a good commentary on gentrification overall that it fit right into the murdermystery plot.


Really enjoyable, but there was a little bit of a letdown in the resolution and aftermath that I couldn't quite get over, Left a little bit of a bad aftertaste, Nersesian doesn't put pout nearly enough books, I was really looking forward to this one, his foray into crime writing, And it was well worth the wait, Like in many New York authors' works, there is a love affair with the city here, The kind of love that sees all the ugliness and filth underneath and loves still, The real kind. In the post/city a rookie detective gets suddenly thrust into a serial killer investigation and subsequently mixed up in several different unfamiliar worlds, one of homicide and one of celebrity via a potential suspect/potential love interest.
While the murders are dark and disturbing, Nersesian brings just the right amount of lightness and irreverent humor and quirkiness to balance the scales for a highly entertaining read.
The real beauty is in the way he conveys a sense of a changing city, evolving or devolving depending on perspective metropolis where honest hideousness is giving way to glitzy ritzy newfound freshly built glamour, sort of like a cheap whore upscaling herself to an escort with a face lift and a boob job.
If you're after a mystery thriller, Nersesian does a good job with it, including some fun plot twists right down to the end, I got the killer wrong, which was a nice surprise, If you're after a literary novel, this works as well since Nersesian is such a good writer, his books are a pleasure to read, not to mention so much fun, and I was just in the right mood for this one.
Excellent read. Highly recommended. Newly minted copy Gladyss Chronou is assigned to homicide and teams up with Bernie "Burnout" Farrell to catch a serial killer, The streets and hotels and SROs are so grimly realistic, I could see and smell them in my mind, The blurb reads, "the narrative offers a suspenseful, often wittily satirical account of a city that is flashy and glamorous one moment, dark and violent the next.
" Really catches the flavor, and you can see too Nersesian's eye on development and gentrification that will lead to the Five Books of Jacob Moses, which I can't wait to read.
Gladyss of the Hunt was a highly enjoyable read as murder mysteries go, it was quirkyand I admit I suspended disbelief, as I often do, in order to get through it.


Nersesian engages the reader by becoming the female protagonist in this case, she has a fraternal twin brother, The firstperson narrative is catchy and likable,

Another reviewer of another of Arthur's books complained he "isn't prolific enough, " I wish that was the worst thing I could say about most authors! I registered a book at BookCrossing, com!
sitelink BookCrossing. com/journal/ Cannot get enough of Arthur Nersesian, Have enjoyed all of his work, Overall, it's a quick and fun read that intermingles ancient myth with pulp mystery, However, while the characteristics of the protagonist, Gladyss, are interesting, she isn't drawn deeply enough, She reads like a means to an end, free of the clever links that join the rest of the novel, Grizzled homicide detective Bernie “Burnout” Farrell heads the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering call girls around Times Square, Hoping to set up a stakeout, Farrell recruits tall, blonde, ambitious rookie cop Gladyss Chronou for the investigation, But Gladyss believes her mystical yoga practice can give her an intuitive edge in solving the crimes and sees mythological patterns in the suspects and events theyre investigating.
Bernie thinks shes nuts, but then, he's a little too grounded, In fact, he's on a steady downward spiral: his wife is divorcing him, his longtime partner just died of AIDS, and he's developed a nagging cough since working down at Ground Zero.


Gladyss of the Hunt oscillates between chilly street realism and new age mysticism, As their investigation takes Bernie and Gladyss from arty society gatherings to shabby hotels and SROs, the narrative offers a suspenseful, often wittily satirical account of a city that is flashy and glamorous one moment, dark and violent the next.
This was really not very good, I liked Nersesian's early works, like The FuckUp and Chinese Takeout, Never got into this one, The character seemed very shallow as did her whole little world in New York City post/, Good read for sure. I just wanted more. You know, like how his books usually spiral down into chaos at the end, Like I feel like there could have been one more chapter where everything just went to hell, Maybe it's just me. .