Blood Sympathy - Joe Sixsmith, Bk 1 Author:Reginald Hill The first in the series starring a PI who’s “as sweet a hero as you’re likely to find in a rough multiracial neighborhood on the outskirts of London” (The New York Times Book Review). — Meet Joe Sixsmith, a balding, middle-aged, recently laid-off lathe operator from Luton, Bedfordshire. He decides to start a new care... more »er as a private investigator, with his grumpy, pork rind–eating cat, Whitey, at his side. Before he can have business cards printed, Joe is juggling a mysterious multiple murder, a cache of illicit drugs, his meddling, matchmaking Aunt Mirabelle, and two thugs whose sole aim in life seems to be inflicting pain on Joe.« less