by Dell Shannon
Part of Lieutenant Luis Mendoza, book 13
First published 1982
Lt. Luis Mendoza faces another busy week in Los Angeles. Two armed robbers remain at large after a deadly heist that left two victims dead. A young man's body turns up in an alley. A woman's corpse lies in a dried riverbed. For Mendoza and his fellow detectives at the LAPD, these cases seem like standard police work. Then the identification comes back on the dead woman. She was a police officer with an exemplary record. One of their own has been murdered. The investigation takes on new urgency as Mendoza and his team work to find who killed their colleague. This thirteenth Luis Mendoza mystery presents the detective with cases that grow more complex as they unfold.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, murder-investigation
Setting: Los Angeles, LAPD
Period: 20th-century
192 pages · Paperback · Keyhole Crime
Content warnings: violence