Bleeding Out by Baxter Clare

Bleeding Out

Baxter Clare

Fans of police procedurals and the grittier murder mysteries will welcome Baxter Clare’s debut novel, in which a hardened female police lieutenant, L.A. Franco, known as ‘Frank,’ tries to catch a serial rapist and murderer while stoically nursing her grief over the shooting death of her lover Maggie. Having been assigned right out of the academy to Figueroa, the LAPD’s roughest district, at 39, Frank’s ‘mastery of the mean streets was no longer a question, either for herself, her colleagues, or the veteranos and OGs within the division.’ As a (closeted) lesbian and a legendary hard-ass, Frank isn’t the most popular of cops, but she earns the grudging admiration of almost everyone she works with. In a film, she would be played by Humphrey Bogart, and speak out of the side of her mouth. Despite this stereotypical characterization, and some tedious, slangy dialogue between cops that periodically interrupts the flow of the story, Bleeding Out is fairly engrossing. Frank may not be new, but she’s effectively drawn, and her exploits on the trail of the killer would enliven a beach vacation or a transatlantic flight. –Regina Marler

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Details

ISBN 1563411180
Genre Mystery
Copyright Date 2000
Publication Date 01-Mar-00
Publisher Lpc-Firebrand Books
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 280
Series Detective Franco Mystery
# in Series 1
Language English
Rating NotRated
Paper Type Electronic Format Available
BookID 1279

Author: LFWBooks