Cleaners Wanted Read Along

Cleaners Wanted by Alex Franklyn
Read Along 10th Feb  – 10th March 
Genre: Humour / Crime / Gangster

Blurb 

It’s a dirty job but some idiots are going to do it! 

In Alex Franklyns second novel she moves into a comedy, gangster crime caper, where we meet John and Billy (Biben), who are quite the disaster area when asked to perform most duties let alone taking on board the role of cleaners for a rogue hitman Daniel. Both dissatisfied with only being warehouse workers for the London Docklands lady mobster Ruby Girthwaite (who wouldn’t trust them to handle a door knob let alone a deal) they look for additional work to pay the bills. The local hood pub landlord puts them in contact with his old mate Daniel who is desperate for a couple of people to ‘work after hours’.

Things start to go awry when they realise that their rouge hitman turns out to have his vendetta against their main boss Ruby due to some unfinished business, definitely resulting in a conflict of interest for them. With the long suffering police detective chasing after Ruby for years they hope to catch her via the pub landlord, John and Billy. With the hits going wrong and information being leaked, the confusion leads to some ridiculous and unexpected turns of events. 

Trigger warnings: profanity, some inappropriate comments, total lack of respect for some pc values, stupid, brain candy and absolutely no intellectual nutritional value in this book whatsoever… like chocolate cake.

Author bio 

When Alex Franklyn decided to start writing after being bored to death at home on enforced leave due to an operation she thought ‘I can do this! All I need is my laptop, google and a large amount of fixated delulu!… and snacks…’ Many times she has thought to herself like many ‘Ooo that would make a good story, someone should write that’ so she did, what could go wrong? 

Having a lot or varied interests around different subjects she wanted to attempts to embark on writing for every genre there is. Her first novel The Empathist was a psychological thriller verging on horror which was released in September 2024. After something so dark and twisted it felt like there was room for something more light hearted and less taxing on the brain. She wanted to give readers the chance for escapism to the total stupidness that is her sense of humour with a book titled Cleaners Wanted. This gangster comedy about two completely incompetent men trying to clean up for a rogue hitman is ridiculous but has a strong story to go with it. She has worked predominantly in social care in nearly every sector there is and so has gained a lot of different life experiences from which to draw from. With another area of her work being film, she’s worked on some independent movies in writing and acting. She enjoys variety in her life and all new experiences in whatever form they come in. As her rescue cat Noodle and her laptop battle it out for supremacy for her attention on a daily basis she tries to keep up with her social medias (you can meet Noodle there too). With that and everything else she’s doing she is fairly social on her posts so please do say hi as whilst she’s a trained listener she can also talk the hind legs off a donkey. Despite her awareness of this it does not stop her.