Review: Don't Walk The Mean Streets Alone
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
If you live in L.A., you know better than to venture out late at night. If you don't, be prepared, carry a gun and take extensive deep breathing lessons. Cassie knew the inside of the beast' s lair intimately. It was ebony dark, warm, and lined with exotic furs bearing trimmed nails. She'd won her case. Her stomach had earned a new notch of queasiness.Larry gained a new respect for her when she relinquished the expensive Yamura scarf.On Lucy Railsback's first assignment for the mayor's office, she was unprepared for a badly decomposed body that still had strands of fetid flesh attached. The lake bed had become a gruesome dumping ground.There are few angels that don't fly sky high over L.A.  Angels Flight , the old funicular railway had been reconstituted. Lucy remained silent about her training as a macumba voodoo priestess. She'd had scant need of the West Indies practice in L.A., until now.Detective Tom Holland believed that the worse cases were the unsolved ones that were never closed. This closing came as sharp as a gun shot crack, or, an egg shell snapped for a mean omelette.The above are only two synopsis of five noir mystery tales included within this page turner. The knock out punches and cliff hangers are certainly thought provoking. I enjoyed the clarity and symmetry of this collection.