Shutterbug

by Laurence Gough

Book Overview

Vancouver's streets are awash with unusually pure heroin. Addicts are dying like flies, but in this port city at the far end of the continent, junkies are a dime a baker's dozen, and nobody's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771034296
• ISBN13: 9780771034299
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful police procedural

In this eleventh novel in the series, Parker and Willows are now free to have their relationship progress (Willows got his divorce) and readers are treated to some more 'domestic moments' between the couple/partners. It's endearing yet (thankfully) not sappy. This is not to say that this book is all roses and sunshine! Gough takes you into the world of thugs, drug dealers and other criminals. It's not pretty, but it sure is interesting! I read this book in one sitting...I just couldn't put it down.

A very good police procedural

Vancouver, British Columbia is like any other North American city in that the mortality rate of heroin addicts is much greater than the norm. Even amidst this sub-populace, the count has abruptly risen. However, most government officials and the general public are not interested in what happens to drug users as long as it remains within that sub-culture. However, the police notices that the recent increase in deaths seem to be mostly dealers working for Jake Cappelletti. Homicide detective Jack Willows wants to marry his peer, Claire Parker, but they have several important personal issues to deal with first,including whether to have children and where they should live. However, neither have the time to discuss their differences as they must stop a mass murderer, who simply wants to replace Jake as the top drug dealer. Even as the police and Jake close in on Wayne Sharpe, he knows how to live up to his surname. He sets it in motion a plan for someone else to take a temporary fall while he continues pressing his "case". SHUTTERBUG is the eleventh novel in the Willows-Parker regional police procedural series. The story line remains very fresh due to the events in the detectives' personal lives such as Jack finally obtaining a divorce from his first wife. The mystery is well designed in a hard boiled, in your face type of manner. Laurence Gough demonstrates why he is an award winning author with his newest novel.Harriet Klausner