The Crosskiller - Hardcover

Montecino, Marcel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877959080 ISBN 13: 9780877959083

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co, 1988

Synopsis

While struggling to deal with a failing marriage, an arrogant son-in-law, and an undedicated partner, Los Angeles detective Jack Gold tries to track down a racist serial killer who is terrorizing the entire city

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

An unhealthy layer of smog hanging ominously over the streets of Los Angeles neatly sets the mood for this dark, gritty thriller. To punish police Lt. Jack Gold for a bust gone wrong, his superior pulls him off the homicide squad and reassigns the veteran officer to a low-profile task force looking into a rash of racist graffiti. Shifting a cigar from one corner of his foul mouth to the other, Gold takes to his new duties reluctantly until the street artist turns psychopathic killer. The sudden splashes of violence tend to be overplayed in this first novel, and characters lean toward caricature. Gold himself is the familiar tough-talking maverick with a bad past and a future that's not much better. His life is empty, his job is going nowhere, and, while his soft-hearted daughter reveres him, her witless husband brings a load of trouble crashing down on them one and all with his white-collar Hollywood drug deals. Montecino is at his best in laying down a series of strong subplots that gradually converge, gathering momentum all the way to a grisly finale.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0877959080
• ISBN 13: 9780877959083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 493