A review by pearl35
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

3.0

By "last detective," Lovesey means that his main character is, as of the 1991 publication, straddling two worlds of police work--the old ways of the Gene Hunt-style threats of intimidation and shoe leather walking around talking to people, and the new world of forensic science, DNA, computer modeling and a diverse police force. Lovesey dilutes the theme of this by offering multiple character perspectives and (I am still trying to work out if this was a nod to Rumpole and the old ways) a denouement that is pure Perry Mason courtroom melodrama.