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Chop Shop
Chop Shop
Chop Shop
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Chop Shop

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"Chop Shop is a wild blend of pulp fiction with dark comedy; its engrossing plot always seems just about to spin out of control." - Foreword

Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and their new buyers seem friendly and trustworthy enough at first. That is until the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease. Now Amber and Jolene's buyers want something else to make up for lost profits, leaving the two undertakers to learn sometimes running your own business can cost you an arm and a leg. Literally.




FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 27, 2019
ISBN9781787582866
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Andrew Post

Andrew Post lives in the St. Croix River Valley area of Minnesota with his wife, who is also an author, and their two dogs.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a thrilling read from start to finish. You definitely won’t get bored with this one.

    I feel like more could have been done with Amber and Jolene’s story but they were great nonetheless.

    Frank really hit me in the feels a lot. He tried so hard to do the right thing.

    Crime, murder, mayhem and necrophilia. This book has it all.

    If feel like the ending was a bit rushed but overall it was a decent read.

    *ARC provided by Netgalley*
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is something of a wild ride, with bad decisions compounding on earlier bad decisions and it all becoming one big mess for the characters. The writing style is engaging, and the characters interesting, although sometimes certain things feel just a tad too implausible. Where things are going is never quite clear and it's far from a boring read.Many thanks to Flame Tree Press for the ARC. This voluntary review is my honest opinion.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Chop Shopby Andrew Post 2019Flame Tree4.0 / 5.0 Amber and Jolene, roommates and business partners of the Hawthorne Funeral Home need to find a way out of their debt at the funeral home or risk losing it. Former mob doctor, Frank Goode provides abortions and other ¨medical procedures¨ in the rear of his grocery store. When Frank needs to dispose of a body, he contacts Amber and Jolene who can´t pass up the chance of making the huge sun offered. They deliver the parts to Rhino, a man connected to body harvesting. But when the parts arrive in ¨rotten¨ shape, Amber and Jolene must find a way to replace the missing parts.....even if it means losing an arm or a leg.With a cast of hard- to- like-but- you- can-not- ignore characters, this draws you into their word of corruption, crime families and racial/ethnic bigotry. This is an insane horror novel. I enjoyed its fast pace, its crazy premise and its black humor.If your like your horror story with terrifying grisly scenes, this might be just the one for you.Thanks to Flame Tree and the author for sending this e-book ARC fro review.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    3.5Book source ~ NetGalleyThe Hawthorne Funeral Home finances are a mess. Why? Because Amber Hawthorne is a worthless crapmonkey who lets her friend Jolene Morris do all the work trying to keep it afloat while Amber parties and drugs it up. Morons, the both of them. So, when Amber’s dealer clues her in on a money making business (a highly illegal one of course) Amber jumps at the chance. Before she can make a decent argument to Jolene why it’s a good business decision, former physician-now-mob-doctor Frank Goode drops their first customer in their lap. Almost literally. They’re in the body part business now, for better or worse. *pssst: it’s worseOk, I know this is mostly about Amber and Jolene and how they got mixed up in a black market body parts deal, but the star of the show is Frank. Oh my, Frank. Did you ever see the CSI episode Loco Motives where the guy Max gets himself stuck in cement while disposing of his wife’s dead body? Frank is Max. Except a whole lot of mob is involved and blood. Sweet Baby Jane, this book is bloody. And that ending? Gah! While it’s a fast-paced page turner, it seemed a little too cliché at times for me. However, it is most definitely entertaining.

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