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From Publishers Weekly
The Bill James Book of the Month Club continues (last month's entry was Split, a valiant effort to revive the spy novel) with another worthy cause a mystery about the way British police handle racially motivated crimes, which could have been, as they say, ripped from today's headlines. Botched prosecutions in at least two recent cases with black murder victims set the real-life tone and raise the fictional stakes, as a white female police officer watches her older detective lover being grilled by a commission of inquiry for his role in a case where two white men were acquitted in the killing of a young black American woman. Did detective constable Vic Othen cooperate in some sort of a coverup in the investigation into the murder of Angela Sabat? Vic's married ladyfriend, officer Kerry Lake, is certainly beginning to think so and the arrival on the scene from Detroit of Angela's feisty mother threatens to blow the whole thing back into the media's greedy eye. Kerry and Mrs. Sabat make a formidable, touching team as they come from two different directions toward the truth. Some of the sharper edges of his highly praised Harpur and Iles police series are blurred here (perhaps by hasty writing), but James still has the sharpest ear for the smarminess of official language of anyone in the business. And only a master of oddly appropriate combinations of words could produce gems like, "This certainty chimed with the barmy grandeur of her ego, she would admit that."
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From Booklist
(*Starred Review*) James has entertained fans for years with his ironic, offbeat, intelligent police procedurals. His charismatic characters walk a fine line between good and evil, and his explorations of the human psyche are as fascinating as they are revealing. But his greatest gift is for droll, cynical humor that offsets the appalling violence and tension in his plots. In his latest, Detective Sergeant Kerry Lake, an Oxford graduate on fast-track promotion to top cop, has one failing--her fatal attraction to veteran detective Vic Othen, who's years older than Kerry and a dangerous man but a great lover. The fact that Kerry is married to an up-and-coming businessman is no deterrent. But Othen's career is in danger after he's hauled before a Special Inquiry for his role in what's seen as a police cover-up. An attractive young black woman from America was brutally murdered, and Othen was first on the scene. But did his connection to the two men accused of the crime, Scout Pethor and Matthew Gain, influence the way he handled the case? And did race play a role in what happened? Pethor and Gain were acquitted, but Kerry knows they're guilty. Can she prove it without ruining Othen's career? This cleverly constructed, masterfully written novel, which will grip readers from first page to unexpected end, draws on issues raised by the headline-grabbing Stephen Lawrence trial in the UK. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
The Bill James Book of the Month Club continues (last month's entry was Split, a valiant effort to revive the spy novel) with another worthy cause a mystery about the way British police handle racially motivated crimes, which could have been, as they say, ripped from today's headlines. Botched prosecutions in at least two recent cases with black murder victims set the real-life tone and raise the fictional stakes, as a white female police officer watches her older detective lover being grilled by a commission of inquiry for his role in a case where two white men were acquitted in the killing of a young black American woman. Did detective constable Vic Othen cooperate in some sort of a coverup in the investigation into the murder of Angela Sabat? Vic's married ladyfriend, officer Kerry Lake, is certainly beginning to think so and the arrival on the scene from Detroit of Angela's feisty mother threatens to blow the whole thing back into the media's greedy eye. Kerry and Mrs. Sabat make a formidable, touching team as they come from two different directions toward the truth. Some of the sharper edges of his highly praised Harpur and Iles police series are blurred here (perhaps by hasty writing), but James still has the sharpest ear for the smarminess of official language of anyone in the business. And only a master of oddly appropriate combinations of words could produce gems like, "This certainty chimed with the barmy grandeur of her ego, she would admit that."
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
(*Starred Review*) James has entertained fans for years with his ironic, offbeat, intelligent police procedurals. His charismatic characters walk a fine line between good and evil, and his explorations of the human psyche are as fascinating as they are revealing. But his greatest gift is for droll, cynical humor that offsets the appalling violence and tension in his plots. In his latest, Detective Sergeant Kerry Lake, an Oxford graduate on fast-track promotion to top cop, has one failing--her fatal attraction to veteran detective Vic Othen, who's years older than Kerry and a dangerous man but a great lover. The fact that Kerry is married to an up-and-coming businessman is no deterrent. But Othen's career is in danger after he's hauled before a Special Inquiry for his role in what's seen as a police cover-up. An attractive young black woman from America was brutally murdered, and Othen was first on the scene. But did his connection to the two men accused of the crime, Scout Pethor and Matthew Gain, influence the way he handled the case? And did race play a role in what happened? Pethor and Gain were acquitted, but Kerry knows they're guilty. Can she prove it without ruining Othen's career? This cleverly constructed, masterfully written novel, which will grip readers from first page to unexpected end, draws on issues raised by the headline-grabbing Stephen Lawrence trial in the UK. Emily Melton
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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