A brand new look at Portland and the NW scene from a street-level view. This police procedural crime novel introduces us to a cast of characters torn right off the precinct roster -- they have real lives with frustrated romances, realistic setbacks and gritty bad guys trying to stay one jump ahead. Portland is portrayed as a main character almost and I found the prose especially riveting and right-on. For sex with a dose of romance, witty humor and cops who speak right off the page, this is the series to buy into. We're promised more of Det. Bowers and his cohorts, and I'm sure this series will win a wide audience of eager readers. I'm already waiting on the sequel!
For good gritty dialog, victim POV that draws you in from the first page, brainy forensics and realism, you can't do much better -- 5 stars.
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Blue Butterfly: A Detective John Bowers Mystery by Ray Bates
robertdd, July 26, 2006
A brand new look at Portland and the NW scene from a street-level view. This police procedural crime novel introduces us to a cast of characters torn right off the precinct roster -- they have real lives with frustrated romances, realistic setbacks and gritty bad guys trying to stay one jump ahead. Portland is portrayed as a main character almost and I found the prose especially riveting and right-on. For sex with a dose of romance, witty humor and cops who speak right off the page, this is the series to buy into. We're promised more of Det. Bowers and his cohorts, and I'm sure this series will win a wide audience of eager readers. I'm already waiting on the sequel!For good gritty dialog, victim POV that draws you in from the first page, brainy forensics and realism, you can't do much better -- 5 stars.
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