My second Thomas H. Cook novel. NO literary references, none at all. It is a straight police procedural, if i understand the term correctly. Over 10 years old, mass market paperback that I overpaid for, even though it was a used copy. Yes, Mr Cook says that he writes crime fiction to say other things. And here in this novel despite it not being as "literary" as my introduction to his book he does, I think.
Spoiler Alert!
There are several dead bodies at the end of the story. Each takes some part of the plot's mystery with him to the grave, the only part he knows, so that no one, dead or alive knows it all, no one including the reader, and even the author. Nevertheless, a police detective continues the investigation and finds something else before the conclusion, something not yet revealed to him.
Full truth cannot be known? Something like it, something like it.
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