A long lost love of private investigator, John Blake, turns up dead on the roof of a seedy strip club in New York. As he investigates the circumstances surrounding her death, Blake uncovers a life that he never imagined possible for his high school sweetheart.John Blake works with Leo, a retired po...
Three years after the events of Little Girl Lost, John Blake has quit the detective game and gone back to school. When his friend Dorrie turns up dead in her bathtub, John puts his detective hat back on and goes looking for why Dorrie ended up dead. The trail takes up through New York's seedy und...
P.I. John Blake's childhood girlfriend, Miranda Sugarman, is found dead on top of a strip club. John follows her backtrail from her enrollment in medical school to a relationship with another woman, to a career touring the strip club circuit and a million dollar robbery. Only, things aren't as the...
A big Wow for this book. Will make my best of 2008 list. Former PI John Blake just can’t help looking into the death, which was ruled a suicide, of a fellow Columbia student. Won the Shamus for best paperback PI novel this year.
My review:http://abouttocharge.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/songs-of-innocence/
Another great Hard Case Crime book, with alot more depth of character than in most of them. The big twist became obvious a bit too soon, but that never really bothers me much in a book.