SPOILER ALERT :
Do not read if you have NOT read CRAIS' LA REQUIEM.
Mark S and I privately lamented Crais had killed off the
wrong woman in LA REQUIEM. . We thought Lucy should have been
the one to be axed. After reading DEMOLITION ANGEL, I can see
Crais must have thought the same thing . Dolan was such a
powerful character he gave her the name Carol Starkey,
slightly changed her character and put her in a book of her
own in DEMOLITION ANGEL. Mark
>Well, Crais has admitted he was influenced by his
writing of Dolan when he
>created Starkey, but I do think the world has room
for more than one tough
>lady cop. I recall Dolan didn't really have a past
trauma (unless I'm
>forgetting something) but simply had been screwed
over by department
>politics. Dolan seemed to have a pretty serious
drinking problem, which I
>don't remember with Starkey, though it may have been
an element in the
>book. And I don't see Starkey throwing herself at
Elvis the way that Dolan
>did. So, yeah, the characters have elements in
common, but I think they
>are more distinct than you do - and I don't think
it's a sign that Crais
>wishes he had killed Lucy (not that I would mind
sending Lucy on a very
>long trip. . .)
Carrie
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