Homicide 69 - Hardcover

Reaves, Sam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786718129 ISBN 13: 9780786718122

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2007

Synopsis

It's the summer of 1969, and veteran Chicago homicide detective Mike Dooley is investigating the brutal torture-murder of a young woman. The victim is a former Playboy bunny and mobster's girlfriend. Dooley suspects this is more than a sex killing, which leads him into the deep waters of mob intrigue and political corruption. The Night Watch is a gripping novel about a man, his family and his times. As Dooley, whose own youth was sacrificed in the Pacific in World War II, scans the news for hopeful portents regarding his son Kevin, a Marine in the thick of the fighting in Vietnam, he sees the world changing before his eyes. The moon landing, Woodstock, the Manson murders, and riots in the streets provide a backdrop for the personal and professional crises precipitated by Dooley's stubborn refusal to give up on a crime nobody but him wants solved.

About this title

About the Author

Sam Reaves is the author of the Cooper MacLeish Mystery series, which includes such titles as Fear WIll Do It and Bury It Deep. Under the name of Dominic Martell, he also wrote the noir thriller Lying Crying Dying. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Reviews

Set in 1969, Reaves's new crime novel opens impressively, as world-weary Chicago detective Mike Dooley seeks the man responsible for the savage, sadistic murder of Sally Kotowski, a mobster's ex-girlfriend. Despite a quick official wrapup of the investigation, Dooley remains skeptical that the guilty party has been punished, and he defies warnings from both sides of the law by continuing to turn over stones in pursuit of the real killer. Distracted by his worries over his eldest son, who's stationed in Vietnam, Dooley recklessly risks his family life by a prolonged flirtation with an attractive friend of the dead woman. That subplot and the author's penchant for starting each chapter with a litany of headline events of the day detract from the gritty beginning, while the disappointing resolution has more to do with the motive for Kotowski's being silenced than her actual killer. Reaves (Fear Will Do It) is also the author of Lying Crying Dying under the pseudonym Dominic Martell. (Jan.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786718129
• ISBN 13: 9780786718122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480