Welcome to Los Angeles. The city that sleeps with one eye open. Enjoy the hot Santa Ana breeze while you sip your tequila. Take a stroll down Sunset Boulevard. Dip your toes in Echo Park lake. Walk down Raymond Chandler’s mean streets. Meet your new neighbors: A rising star defense attorney with self doubts. A dinosaur LAPD detective resistant to change. A beat cop with anger control issues. A drifter who is easily led astray. And two brothers with extra bad luck. And of course, the city itself. The City of Angels. La-La Land. Los Angeles. A collection of 5 stories from the Mean Streets of Los Angeles by Shamus Award-Winning author Paul D. Marks.
My review: In “L.A. at
Night,” a defense lawyer questions if she freed a killer.
The stories
were okay. They tended to lag on sometimes and a lot of the police jargon was a
bore. I could tell they were written as a script by the little inserts (“CUT”
& “EXT. SHOT”). I could just see the scene playing out in front of me. I
felt like I was watching Law and Order.
It was true:
Nowadays you did need a gun to go the grocery store in L.A.
My rating: 2.5 stars
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