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2016 Witness Impulse
400 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 3/17/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.27 - 1259 ratings
My rating: 3.5
Setting: Contemporary Portland, Maine
First line/s: "The bitter stench of urine and impeding death permeated the small dingy bedroom."
My comments: This was a well written police procedural about a smart, honest homicide detective in Portland, Maine. I started this with great excitement the minute I knew it was contemporary Portland. I wasn't disappointed, though it was a little slow in places and I wanted more setting (MAINE!). Boy were there some bad cops in this novel, which of course encourages...forces...my dislike of cops in general. Weird, really, that I love police procedurals...Looking forward to the next in the series.
Detailed info to refresh my memory before reading #2 (spoilers included): John Byron has begun an affair with his partner, Diane Joyner. He has just taken down both his father's killer and his father's best friend. Byron has spent twenty years thinking that his dad had committed suicide, which he now discovers is not the case at all. The chief of police - Stanton - is a real jerk, and Byron's direct boss always has his hands tied and is pretty much mamby-pamby. Byron's "crew" seem pretty decent, honest, and hardworking.
Goodreads synopsis: Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer’s sweltering temperatures and, with the tourists gone, a return to normal life—usually. But when a retired cop is murdered, things heat up quickly, setting the city on edge.
Detective Sergeant John Byron, a second-generation cop, is tasked with investigating the case—at the very moment his life is unraveling. On the outs with his department’s upper echelon, separated from his wife, and feeling the strong pull of the bottle, Byron remains all business as he tries to solve the murder of one of their own. And when another ex-Portland PD officer dies under suspicious circumstances, he quickly realizes there’s much more to these cases than meets the eye. The closer Byron gets to the truth, the greater the danger for him and his fellow detectives.
This taut, atmospheric thriller will appeal to fans of Michael Connelly and John Sandford.
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