A review by the_original_shelf_monkey
Crow's Landing by Brad Smith

4.0

Crow's Land­ing, the sec­ond Vir­gil Cain mys­tery after Red Run, is rife with lowlifes, tough broads, sleazy cops, crazy Rus­sians, drug deals, shoot-outs, and one hard-working pro­tag­o­nist try­ing to keep it all straight and get his boat back. Vir­gil is a arche­typal pulp hero, gruff enough to be taken seri­ously as mus­cle and smart enough to know when the grift is on. Find­ing him­self unwill­ingly linked to a miss­ing drug ship­ment, Cain has no choice (by his reck­on­ing, any­way) but to play one side against the other. It’s a clas­sic sce­nario, but hey, Smith works it gang­busters. Crow’s Land­ing is a gritty yet smooth Hud­son River breeze, a great way to spend some qual­ity time with per­sons you’d be unlikely to sit next to on the bus.

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