Hacker

by Lee Martin

Book Overview

Booklist calls policewoman Deb Ralston a spirited, often put-upon detective . . . a revelation in the genre. A revelation is exactly what the overworked and underappreciated Deb needs when a grisly axe murderer leaves a man dead and his computer demolished.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312069901
• ISBN13: 9780312069902
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

To do: A) Laundry B) Hunt ax-murderer C)Get car washed

The tremendous appeal of the Deb Ralston series owes much to the fact that Ralston isn't an angst-ridden tough cookie with commitment issues- although I quite like tough cookies, it's possible to overdose on them, so Ralston makes a nice contrast. This is not to say that the novel is sentimental or its heroine weak - it's a decent police-procedural with well-realised characters and a nice line in ironic asides. If you ever read a detective novel with a female investigator and thought "Yeah, try doing that with a couple of kids, a dog and six loads of laundry ," you might appreciate the Deb Ralston series, of which this is an excellent example.