by Wolfgang Müller, Oliver Harris
maverick cop playing by his own rules but gets results, taken to its ultimate hilarious satirical extreme. so good loved it
A crackling and fast-paced introduction to a slightly scummy but oddly compelling anti-hero, DC Belsey. He's pretty much at the bottom of the barrel, nine lives used up and on his way out, when the book starts - and although it seems like it's just going to be another "cop who doesn't play by the r...
An excellent protagonist--John Rebus via James Ellroy or Patricia Highsmith. A bankrupt cop with few scruples but an overriding sense of curiosity happens upon an opportunity for a fiscal windfall, an escape hatch.... but that opportunity is bound up in a death that snags his interest. Mysterious ...