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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
LA's Burning and Bodies are Filling the River - but wait - there's More!,
By Gary Griffiths (Los Altos Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Never Fear (Hardcover)
I've always found Los Angeles the perfect setting for crime novels: the sprawling city of contrasting seediness and glitz, mean streets and the meaner people living in them, plastic Hollywood sleaze mixing with the grit of rundown residential hotels, suntanned surfers and sunburned loners of the eastern high desert. Raymond Chandler started it all and is still the master, Robert Crais does LA best today (though some - not me - would argue Michael Connolly), but give Scott Frost credit - "Never Fear" stacks right in there with the best of LA noir.
Alex Delillo is a Pasadena homicide detective who is told that a body found in the LA River is that of her brother. Problem is, Delillo doesn't have a brother - or at least she didn't think so - leading her down a path uncovering the shady past of her long-estranged father, a serial killer of nearly two decades ago, and the obligatory crooked cops of the LAPD. This is an intelligent and complex novel, which, if there is a problem with Scott Frost's second novel, it is the sheer volume of subs, subplots, and distractions. Poor Alex, who's only recently recovering from a psycho's failed attempt to blow up her daughter, must now deal with a dead brother she's never met, a dad who may have been a serial killer, a neurotic mother, while facing down what feels at time like the entire Los Angeles police force. And somebody's trying to kill her - again. Meanwhile, the hills of LA are burning, threatening to take the entire city down. Got all that? So yeah, this is ambitious, but it works, and kept me pretty much glued to the pages to the flaming end. Frost is a screenwriter, and it shows in the rapid pace that doesn't tolerate boredom, delivered in the hip, comfortable style you'd expect from LA. This was my first Scott Frost, but it's good enough for me to go back and check out his well-received debut, "Run the Risk".
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fast paced and page turning - great characters,
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This review is from: Never Fear (Paperback)
I loved this book. Fast paced, great characters, well written. I loved the interaction between the two main characters Alex Dililloi and Harrison. I loved the way it moved and the storyline. This was along the lines of Jonathon Kellerman for me in terms of style and pace. I can't wait to track down some more books from this author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Get your running shoes out for this one,
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This review is from: Never Fear (Hardcover)
From the first page, this book is a fast-paced non-stop book of twists and turns. With a backdrop of LA, and the surrounding area, throw in fires, corruption of the police department, secrets at every corner, and you have a great read. I had a hard time putting this book down even to sleep. Our heroine finds she has a brother she never knew existed, a father who may or may not have been a murderer, a mother with secrets of her own, and then there are the dreams and memories that haunt Alex Delillo as she tries to unravel all the little cords to get to the truth of what did or did not happen. She is trying to solve her brother's murder, not her jurisdiction, solve the 17 year old murders of the River Killer, old stuff, not her jurisdiction, and find the father she can barely remember, who may or may not be alive. Along the way, the body count increases and each one seems to lead nowhere. Putting it altogether is a jigsaw puzzle of pieces spread all over California. And to top it off, she is thinking of having an affair with her partner, definitely not a good career move for either one. We have all the elements of a good mystery: murder, mayhem, missing files, missing persons, reluctant witnesses, dirty cops, coveups, its all packed into 289 pages of high energy, running out of time detective work. And the story line ends with the promise of another book to follow. We have to know how this one ends, eventually.
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