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Murder Book

Murder Book


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‘About as noir as it can be…excellent’ Frances Fyfield, Daily Telegraph


The city is Los Angeles, the birthplace of the American dream, a city that has come to symbolize both heaven and hell. Billy McGrath is an enigma, half American, half English, who once dreamed of pursuing a career as an academic philosopher, but for the last fifteen years he’s been 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’d willingly die. If he hasn’t yet thought of suicide, he soon will.
McGrath is called to a crime scene – a woman dead on a kitchen floor in one of the city’s seamiest neighbourhoods, an apparently routine assignment 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 both his own fall from grace and, as he strives to redeem himself, 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.



About the Author :
Richard Rayner was born in Bradford, England, and now lives in Los Angeles. His previous books include the memoir THE BLUE SUIT; the novel L.A. WITHOUT A MAP, which has been made into a movie starring Johnny Depp; and the novels MURDER BOOK (optioned for film by John Malkovich) and THE CLOUD SKETCHER (optioned by director Alan Parker). He has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and other publications.

Review :
'This is a masterpiece... Unputdownable' Sunday Express 'Exciting and satisfyingly complex' Sunday Telegraph 'Complex, engrossing... an impressive first foray into the genre' Guardian 'As good as Chris Petit's The Psalm Killer, far better than Martin Amis's Night Train, this is a book which defies outside distractions' Time Out


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780006511403
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Flamingo
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Weight: 120 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0006511406
  • Publisher Date: 04 May 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 129 mm


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