LENA GAMBLE RULES ...
PUBLISHERS
WEEKLY
December
2008
STARRED REVIEW. In
Ellis’s scorching sequel to City of Fire
(2007), LAPD robbery and homicide detective Lena Gamble is surprised when she’s
handed a particularly horrific murder case. Her trusted supervisor, Lt. Frank
Barrera, even warns her that it may be a trap. A dismembered female body found
in a dumpster in Hollywood offers little in the way of clues until an anonymous
witness delivers the Jane Doe’s driver’s license and a flash drive showing the
victim’s kidnapping. Gamble follows every lead even when her own bosses spy on
her and warn her off investigating the son of a powerful pharmaceutical company
owner and a physician who knew the dead woman. Finding the missing witness
before the killer finds her may be Gamble’s only hope of solving this deliciously
twisted crime novel in which nothing is what it appears to be.
Ellis succeeds
masterfully in both playing fair and pulling surprise after surprise in a story
that feels like a runaway car plunging down a mountain road full of
switchbacks.
THE LOST WITNESS on Amazon
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