I started off really disliking the Black Dahlia. The story centres on "Bucky", an ex pro boxer who turns cop. He takes part in a fight to raise the profile of the local cops, winning a promotion and a new partner in return. But his partner Lee Blanchard is harbouring issues from his childhood, and when they stumble into a horrendous case involving the murder of a young woman, their upward trajectories start to fall apart.

For the first hundred pages or so the novel is a lot of cop talk, a lot of slang, a lot of macho posturing, and it's pretty dull. But once the case is discovered things rapidly heat up. As Lee gets crazier, Bucky starts to draw together the pieces. But will it end up wrecking his life aswell as Lee's? By the end I was hooked, when it was all revealed, it was devious. The kind of novel I would never normally have picked up, and I ended up really enjoying it.