Review: wow-finally a new LA crime series to live up to the adjective NOIR
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
This is a truly nostalgic novel placed well in present day. Until reading this I'd just about had it with ex-cop PI novels - too many with "cozy" in their descriptions or with barely hidden Christian messages. I should have known that in Fade when the protagonist referenced The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown that he meant business but I've been so disappointed by so many writers who place their tales in LA from afar that I needed convincing. Consider me convinced. I am happy to see the LA area represented so accurately. People like to hate it but it's great when you understand it. Bay City is of course Santa Monica, which is technically not the City of Los Angeles but fans and detractors alike would blur the border. The homeless are a huge part of the Santa Monica population but don't tell the residents that...