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julieb's review
5.0
I read and loved the first of these what feels like a thousand years ago, then gobbled up as many of the next as I could find. This is the last of the Munch Mancini series and it feels like losing an old, good (weird, very old LA) friend. Then to find out that Barbara Seranella passed - in 2007! Damn.
Maybe I didn't read all of them, I add, hopefully. Great book, wonderful character, characters actually. My favorite genre: great books based in Los Angeles. I'll miss them.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-24-me-seranella24-story.html
Maybe I didn't read all of them, I add, hopefully. Great book, wonderful character, characters actually. My favorite genre: great books based in Los Angeles. I'll miss them.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-24-me-seranella24-story.html
canadianbookworm's review
3.0
This is a Munch Mancini mystery, the first I've read. Munch has a checkered past, including drug and alcohol abuse and prostitution. She's cleaned up her act and now works as a mechanic (a job she is good at and respected for). She is short, only five feet tall. She has a daughter, left in her care by a dying friend and a fiance who is a policeman.
Here, the world as she knows it falls apart when her fiance is killed by fellow policeman and accused of being a dirty cop. She digs into the events surrounding his death and struggles to find the truth.
Interesting and an unusual character.
Here, the world as she knows it falls apart when her fiance is killed by fellow policeman and accused of being a dirty cop. She digs into the events surrounding his death and struggles to find the truth.
Interesting and an unusual character.
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