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Lena Gamble, a young LAPD detective just promoted to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division, investigates a series of horrific murders in Robert Ellis´s critically acclaimed third novel.
(2007)
PRAISE
"Los Angeles, under a cloud of acrid smoke ... Robert Ellis´s City of Fire is a gripping, spooky crime novel."
- Janet Maslin
The New York Times
NEW YORK TIMES "HOT LIST" PICK
"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
"I just discovered this guy. The book is terrific."
- Janet Evanovich
People Magazine
"City of Fire by Robert Ellis is a no-holds-barred, barnburner of a thriller that blends Los Angeles-style crime fiction a la Michael Connelly with pulse-pounding Dean Koontzian psychological suspense. With a Southern California increasingly threatened by Santa Ana-fueled wildfires as backdrop, the emotionally supercharged story line centers on a killer who terrorizes west Los Angeles ... like Connelly´s gritty Bosch saga, City of Fire features a tough but deeply flawed protagonist, a tantalizingly complex plot, fully realized -- and realistic -- characters and, most of all, a palpable intensity. And if that weren't enough, the bombshell plot twist at the novel's conclusion makes this an absolute must read for thriller aficionados."
- Paul Goat Allen
Chicago Tribune
"Robert Ellis' brisk, complex City of Fire is hot stuff. Ellis excels at vivid writing and the expert plotting keeps the reader off-kilter. Ellis takes the police procedural and makes it a tale of personal corruption and desire, where right and wrong overlap. Here, the answers aren't easy as Lena wonders about 'blowback ... what the truth could do to a soul.' L.A., which is written about so often, seems fresh in the hands of an original storyteller such as Ellis."
- Oline H. Cogdill
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
BEST MYSTERIES OF 2007
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