false<![CDATA[Light Before Day]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171769879m/119029.jpg1190294Adam Murphy, a twenty-five-year-old journalist, is chasing a career-making story of a serial killer preying on young gay men in West Hollywood when he is abruptly fired by the magazine that employs him. He soon learns his former lover has disappeared, but what hes about to uncover is far more diabolical than he could ever have imagined. Light Before Day is a riveting and complex mystery set against the gothic landscape that Rice has made his own.9220962005Light Before Daytotal:456|5:90|4:144|3:147|2:55|1:20|45615976415941falsefalseTue Nov 18 18:55:39 -0800 2008Thu Oct 16 17:46:25 -0700 2008Tue Nov 18 18:55:39 -0800 2008 His main character, Adam, finds hi...more...]]>
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41falsefalseSun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Thu May 03 12:38:35 -0700 2007Thu May 03 12:49:24 -0700 2007 A poorly reviewed reporter for a cut-rate tabloid finds himself thrust headlong into the strangest murder plot this side of a clown gra...more...]]>
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once, and even gets some great lines in, like: "Around six, I thought about getting some dinner the way some people think about buying a vacation home." Unfortunately, as much as Christopher love...more...]]>
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This was my first encounter with Christopher Rice's work. It was a very dark and gritty novel though his protagonist's take on life in West Hollywood and the gay scene also had flashes of humour so it wasn't unrelenting noir.
I really enjoyed it and found it a real page-turners wit...more...]]>
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