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Starred Review. Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (The Woods) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child's privacy against a parent's right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age. Coben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend's suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. The this could be me factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills. (Apr.)
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*Starred Review* Wambaugh turns his Mars lights on perhaps the most unlikely of subjects: a Hollywood patrol division called CRO (Community Relations Office) made up of safe, contented, non-street-working cops who focus on quality-of-life issues. But, naturally, in Wambaugh’s telling, life in this coveted division—whose members are known as Crows—overruns with slapstick and social satire. The narrative veers between the Crows and the zany bunch of street cops at Hollywood Station (including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam) who contend with the inhabitants of what they call “America’s kook capital.” Bridging the gap between the real cops and the envied, despised Crows is street cop Hollywood Nate (so called because he is forever trying to break into the movie business), who gets an assignment to the Crows and finds himself in the throes of violent lust over Margot, a socialite separated from an edgy nightclub owner. Margot has plans for Nate and his partner, pulling them into a scheme so that she can walk away from her marriage and a perfect murder. We get this plot from Nate’s and Margot’s viewpoints. We also get classic Wambaugh cop stories, culled from actual cops, delivered in inimitable style. Wambaugh’s acid take on the post–Rodney King LAPD and the resultant consent decree and rule by bureaucrats is worth reading in itself. Another terrific Wambaugh ride-along. --Connie Fletcher
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Starred Review. Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (The Woods) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane problems that send ordinary lives into chaos. How do you weigh a child's privacy against a parent's right to know? How do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior? When and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear? Other issues include single parenting; career versus family; marital honesty; and how much information you should share with a child at what age. Coben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend's suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy. The this could be me factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Wambaugh turns his Mars lights on perhaps the most unlikely of subjects: a Hollywood patrol division called CRO (Community Relations Office) made up of safe, contented, non-street-working cops who focus on quality-of-life issues. But, naturally, in Wambaugh’s telling, life in this coveted division—whose members are known as Crows—overruns with slapstick and social satire. The narrative veers between the Crows and the zany bunch of street cops at Hollywood Station (including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam) who contend with the inhabitants of what they call “America’s kook capital.” Bridging the gap between the real cops and the envied, despised Crows is street cop Hollywood Nate (so called because he is forever trying to break into the movie business), who gets an assignment to the Crows and finds himself in the throes of violent lust over Margot, a socialite separated from an edgy nightclub owner. Margot has plans for Nate and his partner, pulling them into a scheme so that she can walk away from her marriage and a perfect murder. We get this plot from Nate’s and Margot’s viewpoints. We also get classic Wambaugh cop stories, culled from actual cops, delivered in inimitable style. Wambaugh’s acid take on the post–Rodney King LAPD and the resultant consent decree and rule by bureaucrats is worth reading in itself. Another terrific Wambaugh ride-along. --Connie Fletcher
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