Like Love: An 87th Precinct Mystery | 
so-soOne of the earlier volumes in the 87th Precinct series, and for book 16 to be considered “early”, that‘s a LOT of books. So it has brevity on its side. That said, not too much character development, more for the detectives. Women are objectified a great deal, and the solution to the main crime was unsatisfying (although I suppose unsatisfying solutions occur in real life as well). I finished this, so not a Pan.
Fear. A very helpful thing to a cop. Everybody's got a skeleton some place, and nobody wants it dragged into the middle of the living room during tea. Fear urges the innocent man to protect his own skeleton by telling the truth about someone else's bag of bones. Fear can lead the guilty man to panic, and panic is the great undoer among criminals.
Most people are sensible, don't you think? Any man will eventually come to the realization that there's no sense in shoveling manure against the tide. [I]t's sweeter-smelling and much less energetic to simply take a bench on the boardwalk, away from the breakers. It's been my experience, Colby, that there is absolutely nothing you can't find in the ocean which you can't find on land. Stop shoveling. Show a little optimism.
Crime detection is a line of work, the same as any other line of work. When a jeweler's been handling gems long enough, he doesn't have to put in his eyepiece to differentiate the real from the phony. He can tell from the feel of the gem, and the sheen and the glitter. Thieves glitter, too.
There were muggings and knifings in the 23rd, yes. But there were also lovers walking hand in hand or stealing a kiss on a rooftop skylight. There police locks on almost every apartment door in the 23rd, yes. But there were *people* behind those doors...but it was part of the greatest city in the world, and it beat like the heart-pump of that city and there was rich, warm blood there and laughter in spite of the filth.
They don't have the volume of his I started, but quasi-gaslighting authorities and body-snatching changeling themes isn't a very romantical Valentine's read....
“There was, too, if a town can give out such a feeling at one o'clock in the morning, a sense of unfriendliness...That's silly, I know. Any small town might look menacing in the early hours of the morning.
dabbling in #ithadtobeyou day 10 love lost
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pickI really have been enjoying the 87th Precinct books. They are fast reads with relatable characters.
Yesterday I clocked in 2hrs and 2mins for the #SummersEndReadathon and this morning I have already added 40mins. So almost 11 hours altogether - still hoping to hit 24 by the end of the readathon!!
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@rabbitprincess Here's my print cover...#alternativecovers
One of the few #lovetitles I own - from my Kindle TBR #feistyfeb
A somewhat creepy-looking cover for a book with "love" in the title. #feistyfeb
