I have been seeing ads for the new television show premiering soon and am hopeful it will be good. I knew nothing about the existence of the graphic novels so was happily surprised when I found this one available on Netgalley.

Greg Rucka wrote an intriguing and taut piece of crime fiction. The main character, a female P.I. named Dex, is smart, sarcastic and tough. She has a brother with high needs who she must care for, and she is in some serious debt. In this story she is looking for a missing woman and trying to do so before all the bad guys find her and kill her. Dex is threatened, hurt and nearly killed herself. The story is gritty and engaging. The artwork is simple, graphic, dark and muted. For the most part I liked that because it enhanced the tension within the plot. Sometimes I struggled to know if the person in the frame was Dex or one of the other women in the story.

Thank you to Netgalley, Greg Rucka and the publisher for this digital ARC in exchange for my review.

This was really fun. This reminded me of a breaking bad vibe. She was a bad ass PI with a brother with Down syndrome. She kept getting into trouble and many people wanted to kill her.

I didn’t love the art style, it was good but not favourite. I really wanted to hear more from her brother. I was so happy to see the Down syndrome representation but he really didn’t play much of a role. I hope he gets more to do as the series goes on.

Thank you to Netgalley for this graphic novel arc

Stumptown is coming to your living room squawk box very very soon, but if you can't wait, then open up Rucka's terrific dark, moody, noir-filled graphic novel. Featuring a tough as nails, down-on-her-luck lady private eye stumping down the back alleys of Portland. I'm not big on most graphic novels, but this one's got it and got it good. If this is volume one, when can I Get my greedy hands on volume two.

I wanted to read this mainly because the Tv adaptation is coming out this month and I wanted to have a little background for it. I enjoyed this for what it was and I look forward to seeing how the adaptation handles everything.