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If you're looking for a brand new cop to read about, you might try
first-time author John Knoerle's Wes Lyedecker - fresh from his
training course and out on his first working day, teamed (as you might
expect) with a been-there-done-that, kick-ass veteran whose only use
for the rule book would be to stick it under a piece of wonky
furniture. Lyedecker finds plenty of wonky items on his central
California beat, ranging from studiously weird low-life to clapped out
cars and machinery. Not to mention his vet buddy. Knoerle has a plot
in here somewhere, and if that too seems wonky it's probably because
he is trying to give a semi-comic slant to the buddy cop novel. The
problem for me is that semi-comic semi-crime books so often turn out
to be neither one thing nor the other. |
