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Sweet Deal

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Someone is brutally bumping off corrupt Long Island cops. I found this a page-turner with good dialog and strong plotting. Although the characters are believable they are mostly stereotyped. Lucy Lallos the tricycle-riding alcoholic was the best, and Champ the dog was good. The hero Detective Jack Mills is handsome, athletic and incorruptible. His marriage is on the rocks because of his dedication to his job. There's a black officer with a chip on his shoulder about being black, and an attractive female officer with a chip on her shoulder about being attractive and female, a hooker with a heart of gold, a rich obnoxious lawyer and sinister Mafiosi. It is all well done and the writer knows his craft and how to divert us with red herrings and how to keep us on the edge of our seats with cliffhanger chapter endings and clever switches of POV but we've been here before. The climactic hostage scene was high in tension but low in plausibility.
The most original touch is the dense Long Island atmosphere. If you live there this might be appealing, but there was nothing that made me want to jump onto the LIRR and take a look at the place.