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That jaunty, offbeat attitude toward crime and criminals goes a long way toward explaining why Laurence Gough's books about Vancouver homicide detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker--including Memory Lane and Heartbreaker--are so popular in Canada and England, and why they're catching on with shrewd American readers. The cops themselves are original enough to hold our interest, and Gough has a sly way of making his villains dance. In this one, a giant goon called Wayne and his sharper, more deadly girlfriend, April, are more than a match for any of Elmore Leonard's creepy crew. After capturing a smalltime thief named Lewis by zapping him with a Taser, April reassures him that it was only on half-power. "Wayne used this thing on a family of raccoons that was always getting into the garbage.... I was looking at their little bandit heads sticking out of the garbage cans, thinking that they were cuter than Tickle Me Elmo, and then Wayne zapped them, and all of a sudden they looked like a bunch of great big oversized Christmas puddings, all blue flame and flambeau."
Finding out why April and Wayne snatched Lewis, and what it has to do with the sudden deaths of several rival drug dealers, keeps Willows and Parker pretty busy, but they still have time to pursue their romance and plan marriage (reluctantly, in Jack's case--he's just divorced, with two kids). Even in Canada's crime capital, life does have its normal moments. --Dick Adler
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