Synopses & Reviews
Fall Down Easy is the sixth hard-hitting, Vancouver-based crime novel featuring detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker.
Greg is a coke addict, weapons freak, professional heartbreaker, master of disguise – and bank robber. But his latest hold-up goes sour: there is a violent fight and a man is killed. Greg makes his escape with the victim’s briefcase, to find it full of not money, but computer print-outs.
Willows and Parker are handed what rapidly becomes a hideously complex investigation. The dead man turns out to be a plainclothes Panamanian police officer, in Vancouver for unspecified reasons. It also proves impossible to build up any sort of profile of the chameleon-like killer…for what Willows and Parker can’t know is that the man they’re after is motivated by far more than a simple love of money.
Riveting, fast-moving, at times blackly humorous, Fall Down Easy is another winner for Laurence Gough.
Synopsis
Laurence Gough, who lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, has written twelve Willows and Parker mysteries:
The Goldfish Bowl, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada;
Death on a No. 8 Hook;
Hot Shots, winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year;
Serious Crimes;
Accidental Deaths;
Fall Down Easy;
Killers;
Heartbreaker;
Memory Lane;
Karaoke Rap; Shutterbug; and
Funny Money. His international thriller,
Sandstorm, won the Author Award (fiction) from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters in 1991.
From the Hardcover edition.
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