Lena Gamble, a young LAPD detective just promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division, investigates a series of horrific murders in Robert Ellis´s highly anticipated third novel.
(2007)

   EARLY PRAISE   

"City of Fire is my kind of crime novel. Gritty, tight and assured. Riding with Detective Lena Gamble through the hills of Los Angeles is something I could get used to. She´s tough, smart and, most of all, she's real."
                    -- Michael Connelly

"City of Fire crackles along with the heat and intensity of a five-alarm conflagration. Robert Ellis has crafted an incandescent tale of detection that will have mystery and thriller fans burning through its pages."
                    -- Joe Drabyak
                       Chester County Books & Music Company, West Chester, PA

"With City of Fire Robert Ellis joins the elite company of California crime writers like Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Don Winslow and T. Jefferson Parker. City of Fire captures the L.A. landscape with a crackling good story, great character development and solid writing. Robert Ellis is a writer to watch. City of Fire is sure to please."
                    -- Barry Martin
                       Book´em Mysteries, Pasadena, CA

"This books pumps your blood, keeps you racing through the night, with a cast of characters at full throttle. Ellis´s prose has the visceral punch of the best Ellroy. And his heroine, Lena Gamble, is the most complex, tightly wound detective in years. She´s strong, smart, uncompromised, and I´d follow her anywhere."
                    -- Mark Moskowitz
                       Director of the award-winning film Stone Reader

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