![]() While there is a little more meandering here than one might expect from a writer who’s written many tight screen thrillers, and sometimes odd repetitions in the prose (a sociology professor is described as looking “more like an ex-fashion model” and again as “more like a fashion model from Town & Country than an academic” on successive pages), this novel has a vivid sense of Los Angeles and the people you would and wouldn’t want to meet there. ![]() She’s smart and efficient (although she mysteriously does not check up on an address that she finds written on a slip of paper, among the scattered shells and blood in the aftermath of the mugging-murder that starts the action of the book, in a moment that defies belief), and her friendly interrogations of Cooper, along with her more aggressive streetside interactions, are high points in the book. ![]() The book has another asset in the cop character, a disgraced female detective named Kelly Maguire who vents her serious rage problem in traffic stops and on criminals who cross a certain line.
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