And the beat goes on…
About The Book: In this fifth book of the SPD Blue—True Crime
series, as murders, suicides and unattended deaths run rampant, Detective Patrick
“Mac” MacKenna finally gets his transfer to the Major Crimes unit. The single
father to three adolescents, he’s constantly working eighty-hour weeks, when he
decides he needs to change things up for the betterment of his family and himself.
He
manages to reduce his overtime hours and complete his associates degree despite
the everyday grind of working in a busy police unit which handles all major
felonies. If this isn’t enough, he receives a cold call from the local US Navy
recruiter. It sounds so good, Mac signs up to work Naval Intelligence—just before
9/11 hits.
Our Review: This is not so much the standard police procedural
genre of general fiction where the lead character has the expected Goals,
Motivation and Conflict, but a fast-paced day-by-day/week-by-week chronicle, offering
a window into the everyday lives of those who protect and serve on the streets
of a mid-sized city in Central New York State. The author’s description of the
various ‘burbs’ and ethnic neighborhoods unique to Syracuse, as well as the
chaos of busy inner-city Emergency Rooms, is spot on. That reader who craves
non-stop action of a police manual will find exactly what they are looking for.
On a scale of 1-5, SPD Blue—True
Crime: Major Crimes deserves a 3.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
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