I just finished William Landay's _Mission Flats_ yesterday
and liked it a lot. Though set in a fictional neighborhood in
Boston, I thought he really captured the feel of the place--
the low lives who run the drug trade, the upright citizens
afraid to testify against them, etc. It reminded me a lot of
Dennis Lehane's Kenzie/Gennaro books. And the naive, young
police chief who is the book's narrator, proves to be not
quite so naive as the book goes on--he's got a couple of big,
bombshell secrets that he keeps until late in the proceedings
that cause us to rethink his narration (not completely, but
just enough). It's hard to picture another book with this
same protagonist, but Landay really did a nice job in this,
his debut.
Craig Larson Trinidad, CO
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