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Set in Southern California, this fits well into the hard-boiled genre a la Chandler but with a gender switch--in this one our hard-drinking first person narrator and private detective Kinsey Malhone is a woman, and it's the men who are dangerous and of easy virtue. Tough, yes she's no one's fool and picks up on subtle clues of character, but she's not so hardened that she can't empathize with people she comes across.
I found the plot far too predictable though, falling right into a huge noir cli ...more
I found the plot far too predictable though, falling right into a huge noir cli ...more
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