Dead Flowers - Hardcover

Johnson, E. Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558820590 ISBN 13: 9781558820593

Publisher: International Polygonics, 1990

When someone rips off a shipment of drugs and the evidence seems to point to a cop as the guilty party, the drug dealer sets out to regain his property by killing off police officers, one by one, and it is up to Detective Lonto to stop him

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From Publishers Weekly:

This gritty police procedural centers on the stereotypical good and bad cops at River Station, in the slums of an unnamed city. The good guys--homicide detectives Tony Lonto and Pat Runnion--are investigating the death of a florist (who was allergic to flowers) killed after picking up his latest shipment. The police at first assume that a robbery went wrong, but the detectives discover an incriminating link between the city's drug trade and the florist's delivery service. When a narcotics detective from River Station is found tortured and murdered, narcs Jake Gunnarson and Earl Koppel, the bad cops, conduct their own "investigation" into their colleague's murder, putting themselves on a course headed straight toward a confrontation with Lonto and Runnion. Will the good guys find the killers before the bad guys cover their tracks? The outcome is never in any doubt. Despite flat characterizations and stilted writing, Johnson ( Silver Street ), himself a prison inmate, clearly knows the drug trade and the mean streets he writes about.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Raymond DeMeyere, expert on flowers, but allergic to them, meets death in the alley behind his flower shop one morning. Detectives soon tie the case to the untoward murder of an undercover narcotics cop. As the detectives eyeball the usual big-city lowlifes, they encounter blackmail, violence, more murder, and police corruption. Author Johnson pasted his characters and the plot together without much glue, unfortunately, which results in an uncomfortable collection of unconvincing words and wooden movements. He writes better description than dialog, but not enough to rise above awkward stereotype.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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