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"Where Cries the Kis-Ka-Dee" by Part-time Vallarta Resident, Noel Compton Bacchus
 Bob Cohen - PVNN
March 11, 2010
Noel Compton Bacchus, who has been visiting Puerto Vallarta annually since 1982 and his visits in his last 15 years qualify him as a part time resident recently released a mystery, thriller late in 2009 named "Where Cries the Kis-Ka-Dee". The native of British Guiana that wrote "Guyana Farewell" in 1995 which beautifully portrayed memories of his youth before he left to come to the United States. Noel wrote a book I never would have expected from my rather proper friend.
When I received my copy I expected to allot 20 pages a night to my reading, but 100+ pages after I opened the book, I couldn't put it down. I was captured by the thrilling mystery that unfolded and kept unfolding as I kept reading. Noel is a tennis fanatic and in those terms he made a perfect serve and moved his opponent around the court at his pleasure and he produced a game, set and match victory.
Where Cries the Kis-Ka-Dee is a winner! Noel Compton Bacchus has written an intriguing and entertaining mystery. The writing is literate fluid and compulsive. Unlike formulaic concoctions of so many books that clutter the airport kiosks, this is a carefully constructed, cleverly developed and intelligently resolved tale.
The life of Simon Cromwell, a businessman and university professor begins to disintegrate when his wife vanishes on their island vacation. Repeated attempts to kill him succeed in injury and frightening Cromwell. He embarks on a frantic search for answers, pursuing fruitless leads in Boston, San Francisco and Toronto. Each step brings disconcerting revelations about his wife's past which do little to explain his predicament. Increasingly, circumstances point to his own childhood and secrets of which he is unaware.
The author builds the narrative skillfully, deploying a cast of characters that entertain, baffle and memorize his readers. Nothing is what it seems. Finally transported to the steamy and exotic terrain of Guyana, amid the rivers and forests, Cromwell confronts his enemies.
Where Cries the Kis-Ka-Dee fulfills the requirements of an entertaining mystery; a plot that grabs the imagination, a complicated protagonist, villains with believable motives and brutal intensity spare crackling prose that generates violence, romance, ambiance and a satisfying climax.
Nothing in the elegant, tranquil nostalgia of Guyana Farewell, Noel Compton Bacchus' earlier memoir of a childhood in the small colony of British Guyana hints of the slightest of the skillfully plotting, carefully realized developments, clever strategies and entertaining tale he has now provided. |
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