Monday, September 19, 2011

Devil's Corner by Lisa Scottoline




This is the first book I have read by this author and I really found it fun and a page turner even though it stretched possibility and probability. 

A short synopsis would have a good looking young Assistant US Attorney witnessing a triple murder and barely escaping herself, then with vigilante diligence she sets off to right wrong.  She does it by breaking several rules like the physical intimidation of a prisoner and other acts that should have sent her packing rather than suspended.

Of course she then befriends this African American prisoner who was just released and additional murders, drug crimes, and other violent interruptions raise the odds and the excitement while the two women move between law enforcement and criminals to solve and resolve the crimes.

It is a black/white contrasting interaction between the heroes that sets the tone and gives the book some humor as well as a love affair that the heroine longs for from the beginning of the text.  All this gets resolved, but I will not tell you how since that would spoil the story.

Devil’s Corner is the run down section of the city where the black heroine lives and where the white heroines father grew up.  It is a place that has always had an ethnic concentration and over time became a district for crack sellers to prosper.

There are lots of angles and they are all resolved in a way that is unique to this Lone Ranger and Tonto pairing.  Don’t take it too serious, just enjoy the fun.  

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