A retired cop comes back to the Cold Case Squad, and uses some unorthodox methods to close some files, in Barry Disher's Under the Cold Bright Lights.
Disher is a well-established Australian crime writer, but this is the first of his novels I have come across. I enjoyed the characters especially, and the storytelling was interesting.
Our lead detective has complex relationships with his ex-wife and daughter, and has a big, rambling old house where several people from all walks of life have ended up, and interact.
The cases include an old body found under a concrete slab, a doctor who may or may not have killed several ex-wives, and an accident which might have been a murder. Another storyline follows a lodger at the cop's house who has an abusive husband.
And more than one of these storylines are resolved in surprising ways.
This was a very solid police procedural with above-average characterization and plotting. I would look for more from Disher.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
Disher is a well-established Australian crime writer, but this is the first of his novels I have come across. I enjoyed the characters especially, and the storytelling was interesting.
Our lead detective has complex relationships with his ex-wife and daughter, and has a big, rambling old house where several people from all walks of life have ended up, and interact.
The cases include an old body found under a concrete slab, a doctor who may or may not have killed several ex-wives, and an accident which might have been a murder. Another storyline follows a lodger at the cop's house who has an abusive husband.
And more than one of these storylines are resolved in surprising ways.
This was a very solid police procedural with above-average characterization and plotting. I would look for more from Disher.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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