Murder Book - Softcover

Richard-rayner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006511406 ISBN 13: 9780006511403

Publisher: Flamingo, 1999

Synopsis

About as noir as it can beexcellent Frances Fyfield, Daily TelegraphThe city is Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and hell. Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, who once dreamed of pursuing a career as an academic philosopher, but for the last fifteen years hes been a homicide detective one of LAs best. He knows the rules, and understands a justice system that punishes the underprivileged and lets the rich go free. Hes an unhappy man, divorced from the wife he still adores and separated from a daughter for whom hed willingly die. If he hasnt yet thought of suicide, he soon will.McGrath is called to a crime scene a woman dead on a kitchen floor in one of the citys seamiest neighbourhoods, an apparently routine assignment until he discovers that the murdered womans son is LAs biggest crack dealer, an idol of the ghetto who offers him a one-million-dollar bounty for the name of the killer. Making the wrong choice for what might be the right reasons, McGrath initiates both his own fall from grace and, as he strives to redeem himself, a series of wild and furious actions that hurtle him through the many identities of corrupt Los Angeles.In McGrath, Rayner has created a sympathetic everyman who becomes both victim and victor. Set against a bleak cityscape, Murder Book is a dark, violent and sexy thriller that is impossible to put down.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006511406
• ISBN 13: 9780006511403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 357