Murder Book - Softcover

Rayner, Richard

3.5

72 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061097373 ISBN 13: 9780061097379

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

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L.A. homicide detective Billy McGrath is called in to investigate the murder of a woman whose son is L.A.'s biggest crack dealer and finds himself offered a million-dollar bounty by the son to reveal the name of the killer. Reprint.

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Review:

For LA Without a Map

‘Clued-up, literate and gut-bustingly funny’
Gordon Burn, Arena

‘Brilliant... marvellously original, vivid and funny... sizzling energy, humour and atmosphere’
Sunday Express

‘Written in the fast lane... Hilarious’
i-D

‘Full of irony and masochism... a terrific piece of road comedy’
Daily Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

COMPELLING, DARK AND DIRTY, 'MURDER BOOK' IS A 'CHINATOWN' FOR THE NINETIES.

The city is Los Angeles, birthplace of the American dream. Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, a philosopher manqu�, but for the fifteen years a homicide detective – one of LA's best. He knows the rules, and understands a justice system that punishes the underprivileged and lets the rich go free. He's an unhappy man, divorced from the wife he still adores and separated from a daughter for whom he's willingly die.

McGrath is called to a brutal, but apparently routine, crime scene. Routine until he discovers that the murdered woman's son is LA's biggest crack dealer, an idol of the ghetto who offers him a one-million-dollar bounty for the name of the killer. Making the wrong choice for what might be the right reasons, McGrath initiates his own fall from grace and, as he strives to redeem himself triggers a series of wild and furious actions that hurtle him through the many identities of corrupt Los Angeles.

In McGrath, Rayner has created a sympathetic everyman who becomes both victim and victor. Set against a bleak cityscape, 'Murder Book' is a dark, violent and sexy thriller that is impossible to put down.

'Written in the fast lane...'.
I-D

'Full of irony and masochism...Terrific'.
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'High-class and distinctive'.
INDEPENDENT (of 'Los Angeles Without a Map').

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