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A review by infosifter
Land of Careful Shadows by Suzanne Chazin
4.0
Jimmy Vega is a Latino cop who feels caught between the needs of two communities. He is viewed as Latino by white people, but he is not part of the immigrant community either because he is of Puerto Rican Heritage, and thus lives in the US legally. In this mystery, his past, present, professional, and personal lives all collide.
My only grumble with this book is that the solution to the homicide hinges on the kind of coincidence which, when it happens in real life, people say, "if someone wrote that in a novel, they would be made to rewrite it."
Content advisory: this book is a modern police story which contains some offensive language, in English and Spanish, as well as A couple of graphic descriptions of violent death. There is much less of both then in many modern police procedurals, but more than you would find in a cozy or classic mystery.
My only grumble with this book is that the solution to the homicide hinges on the kind of coincidence which, when it happens in real life, people say, "if someone wrote that in a novel, they would be made to rewrite it."
Content advisory: this book is a modern police story which contains some offensive language, in English and Spanish, as well as A couple of graphic descriptions of violent death. There is much less of both then in many modern police procedurals, but more than you would find in a cozy or classic mystery.