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BLOODTHIRSTY
by Marshall Karp
MacAdam Cage, May 2007
425 pages
$26.00
ISBN: 1596922095


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For those of you, like me, who devoured Marshall Karp's debut novel THE RABBIT FACTORY, I'm delighted to tell you that book number two is equally entertaining.

We find our LAPD cop heroes Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs as a touch more than legends in their own lunchtime. Their escapades in book one have earned them the attention of Hollywood, and the movie makers are sniffing around and feting our lads. So they definitely have dollar signs in their eyes.

So it's best bib and tucker to attend a movie premiere where they’ll finally get to meet Barry Gerber who’ll be the man to make them famous. Not that the evening goes with much of a swing, though, as the world's most unpopular film-maker never turns up. And our heroes’ dreams are dented when Gerber turns up dead some days later, killed in a very bizarre manner and stuffed into a trash can. That’s the cue for the bodies to start rolling in – and they've all been bumped off in a most unusual way.

So it’s a rollercoaster ride as Lomax and Biggs wisecrack their way round Los Angeles. But Karp knows when to pull back from overdoing it, and serves up a delicious mix of humour, movie biz atmosphere (OK, so he’s been a scriptwriter and producer in real life) and gritty police procedural.

There's no second book droop here from Karp. He's tightened up his storytelling as well – BLOODTHIRSTY weighs in at a fairly restrained 425 pages as opposed to the gargantuan 630 first time out. And this time around all the plot threads are vital.

One of the attractions of this series is the supporting cast, who are all beautifully inked-in cameos. There may well reach a point where Mike's dad Big Jim becomes annoying, but he's getting away with it this time out.

BLOODTHIRSTY boasts good humour, great setting, zesty dialogue, entertaining characters, and development between the books. What's not to like?

Reviewed by Sharon Wheeler, July 2007

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