Broken Places
Book description
Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it’s up to her to prove a murderer is on the…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Broken Places as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book takes place in the windy city of Chicago and Clark is adept at making you feel like you are right there in the midst of the fast-paced, gritty city as you read.
The plotting helps by kicking off with a bang – a priest and a gang member found dead in church. Questions abound. But what really kept me turning the pages of this book (or technically swiping since I read it on my Kindle) was Cass Raines, retired cop turned PI.
Her last case on the police force left her reeling and she struggling to deal with…
From K.D.'s list on big city private eyes.
Tracy Clark’s reference to Hegewisch, the unheralded blue-collar Chicago neighborhood where I grew up, means that she knows her city well.
Add to that, her complex and fast-paced story featuring her sassy, smart protagonist Cass Raines in a debut novel confirms her talent as an author who knows how to fashion an engrossing mystery that gets the details right.
Not just about inner-city crime, but also about the Chicago Police Department that Cass once was a member of and the enduring pain of a child who watches her mother die of cancer and her father walk out of her life.…
From Patricia's list on protagonists who are haunted by the past.
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