I like police procedurals. They move slowly and wander all over a crime. You get to know the detectives. That is at the heart of this one. We are focusing on Tully and his partner Morales. Their beat is Hollywood. We start out with a strange murder. A man is baked to death. Even for Hollywood, this is strange.
Tully is or was an academic. He was working on his PhD in history when he came to feel totally unnecessary in his field. He has a 3 by 5 foot space on a desk in a room with several young men just like himself. He decides to go be a policeman so he can actually help the world he lives in. His parents, both professors, are aghast at those plans and tell him so every chance they can. Tully accepts that his parents won't support his chosen career. He goes on being a detective anyway.
The murder case he is working on has a good many twists and turns. He finds the solution, which hangs on a bit of history. That solution almost kills him. While working on this unusual murder, he is also hunting a little man who kills family dogs on the day that its owners are getting married. The two cases have nothing to do with each other, and that is something we miss in most procedurals. Detectives do work several cases at once.
I received the book I read for this review from BookishFirst. However you get your copy, I recommend this debut book.
Tully is or was an academic. He was working on his PhD in history when he came to feel totally unnecessary in his field. He has a 3 by 5 foot space on a desk in a room with several young men just like himself. He decides to go be a policeman so he can actually help the world he lives in. His parents, both professors, are aghast at those plans and tell him so every chance they can. Tully accepts that his parents won't support his chosen career. He goes on being a detective anyway.
The murder case he is working on has a good many twists and turns. He finds the solution, which hangs on a bit of history. That solution almost kills him. While working on this unusual murder, he is also hunting a little man who kills family dogs on the day that its owners are getting married. The two cases have nothing to do with each other, and that is something we miss in most procedurals. Detectives do work several cases at once.
I received the book I read for this review from BookishFirst. However you get your copy, I recommend this debut book.