Mike Hoolihan has a man's name, a deep voice and manners that no one would define as feminine, but she is a woman and likes men, although she has always chosen those who least suited her. And then he has had to drown his tribulations in torrents of alcohol. But currently he is in dry dock, because his liver can no longer bear a single drop of comfort. And since Mike is also a detective on the police force of an American city, he now has to face the worst case of his life with nothing to slightly soften the egregious edges of reality. Although, as she herself says, after having investigated hundreds of crimes, "worse" is a very elastic concept, which can always accommodate something else. The dead woman, as Martin Amis said in "London Fields", "there is always a dead woman", is the beautiful Jennifer Rockwell, daughter of Mike's boss, who was twenty-seven years old, was a scientist, he...read more
