Black Dog

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Summary: BLACK DOG goes for the throat
Review: BLACK DOG gives the reader a look at the new Ross Macdonald of crime fiction, and a look at the new Lew Archer--Jimmy Parisi. The WASHINGTON POST (4/25/04) says"Laird is a skillful practitioner of the classic police procedural...The language and especially Parisi's voice are perfectly pitched to evoke working-class Chicago in all its ethnic intensity. This is a winning book about a winning character who earns our admiration for his gimpy middleaged weariness and perseverance." BLACK DOG is a superior crime novel from the author of SEASON OF THE ASSASSIN and CUTTER.

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Summary: black dog has bite
Review: BLACK DOG, the third in the Jimmy Parisi series, goes the deepest into the heart of the series' protagonist. Parisi is near burn-out, but catching The Count has become a personal obsession for the Chicago detective. There is another murder to be solved as well--that of an Inner City senior citizen. The oldster's killing is deemed 'low profile', but Jimmy doesn't think so, and nothing is as it seems. So he fights on to find The Count and the Inner City killer. Parisi is fighting for his own life as a cop. BLACK DOG is an intense crime novel, filled with characters who really are characters, and the book is also a super-charged thriller.