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Detective Jack Leightner investigates the murder of his old hospital roommate, while his old partner Gary Daskivitch gets caught up in the shooting of an unarmed civilian.
Jack Leightner juggles two Brooklyn cases in Cohen's so-so third novel to feature the NYPD detective (after 2007's The Graving Dock). . .. His refusal to consider Zhenya a serious suspect damages the book's credibility, as do a number of other mistakes that a veteran like Leightner shouldn't make. Some awkward prose (e.g., "The girl behind the counter was a skinny little thing dotted-like a doughnut-with bright pink acne") and a contrived ending don't help. Reggie Nadleson does a better job of covering much the same geographic and emotional territory in his Artie Cohen novels (Fresh Kills, etc.). (May)
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Rodrigo Garcia Fernandez
reviewed Neptune Avenue (Jack Leightner Series #3) on August 14, 2011
Neptune Avenue (Jack Leightner Series #3)
It's a good cliche ridden mystery crime novel; nothing new here. The grizzled protagonist is one of those cops who revels in the identity of being a cop, at least he's a detective and a wise old sage. Of course, he has his flaws. The interesting angle with this book is the location, brooklyn. And not the hipster riddled offbeat avenues of williamsburg or the rarified boulevards of conspicuous consumption that make up the neighborhoods of brooklyn heights, park slope, dumbo or cobble hill. No, his beat is the borsht belt of brighton beach, where the soviet union is still a fresh memory. Other than that, there's nothing all that interesting though Gabriel Cohen uses a nice plot twist at the end that a more attentive reader might spot a mile away.
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