A review by paulataua
Lush Life by Richard Price

4.0

It’s a police procedural of a different kind. It’s one in which the interrogations go on and on without bearing fruit, where the detectives are frustrated rather than helped by the system, and where crimes are solved by happenstance more often than investigative work. We are left with a detective’s dogged perseverance in the face of a murder that looks likely never to be solved. Awesome dialogue writing but it’s sometimes a little dense and it shifts from one part of the story to another with little signposting. It just means you have to keep focused all the time. You also need to power through the first couple of chapters trusting that things will become clear. Enthralling read!