Billy McGrath is one of LA's best homicide cops. Divorced, with a
daughter he adores and a head full of philosophy, the
Anglo-American 40-year-old is also semi-suicidal, throwing himself
into his grisly job in the hope of finding a raison d'etre. It is
when he opens the investigation into the murder of the mother of
one of LA's most successful crack dealers that Billy sets off on
the most important journey of his career - a journey both through
Los Angeles and into himself. Not only an exemplary crime novel,
this is also a revealing portrait of an unfathomable city and one
of the lost souls trying to make sense of it. (Kirkus UK)
'About as noir as it can be...excellent' Frances Fyfield, Daily
Telegraph The city is Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American
dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and hell.
Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, who once
dreamed of pursuing a career as an academic philosopher, but for
the last fifteen years he's been a homicide detective - one of LA's
best. He knows the rules, and understands a justice system that
punishes the underprivileged and lets the rich go free. He's an
unhappy man, divorced from the wife he still adores and separated
from a daughter for whom he'd willingly die. If he hasn't yet
thought of suicide, he soon will. McGrath is called to a crime
scene - a woman dead on a kitchen floor in one of the city's
seamiest neighbourhoods, an apparently routine assignment until he
discovers that the murdered woman's son is LA's biggest crack
dealer, an idol of the ghetto who offers him a one-million-dollar
bounty for the name of the killer. Making the wrong choice for what
might be the right reasons, McGrath initiates both his own fall
from grace and, as he strives to redeem himself, a series of wild
and furious actions that hurtle him through the many identities of
corrupt Los Angeles. In McGrath, Rayner has created a sympathetic
everyman who becomes both victim and victor. Set against a bleak
cityscape, Murder Book is a dark, violent and sexy thriller that is
impossible to put down.
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