Molls Like It Hot by Darren Dash

Molls Like It Hot from author Darren Dash is a fast-paced and oddly heartfelt thriller, featuring a cabbie with a surprising toolkit, a worldly gangster, a trigger-happy target, and a decidedly dangerous offer.

A young woman lies at the heart of this tangled mess of a story, as one so often does, but Toni is far from a plot device. She’s a hard-drinking badass with a psychopathic soft spot for violence and a dangerous temper. Protecting this gangster’s lover in the seedy streets of South London leads Eyrie Brown into a weekend of gunfights and bloodshed that he’ll never forget – provided he survives it.

Dripping with terse British charm and a stark narrative voice, Dash has created a thrilling bundle of characters and set them loose in a gangster’s paradise. The descriptions are authentic and sharp, peppered with biting wit and brutally good action that transports readers to the most ominous shadows of England’s capital. The book is heavy in dialogue, but it’s written remarkably well, and keeps the story unraveling at a manic, yet believable clip.

Far from a pulp piece of noir fiction, Molls Like It Hot touches on deeper themes of morality, loyalty, justice, righteousness and the desperate lengths humans go to survive in dark times. All in all, Dash has delivered a wickedly entertaining slice of British noir.

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