A terrific mystery set in contemporary L.A., the 5th most self-mythologized Western city of the last thousand years after New York, London, Paris & Rome.
Harper’s plot threads through some of the many ethnic subcultures of the city, but its real focus is the L.A. Police and Sheriff’s departments, their daily deputies’ and plods’ desires and drives. Truth and Justice are a long way down the list... One of its strongest virtues is that it continually evokes Joseph Wambaugh’s LAPD novels of the 1970s.
But it’s fifty years later now, and the situation is fifty years worse.
Everybody Knows shares its title with that cynical, elegant, distantly furious Leonard Cohen song about corruption as an open secret, and it does the subject proud.
Harper’s plot threads through some of the many ethnic subcultures of the city, but its real focus is the L.A. Police and Sheriff’s departments, their daily deputies’ and plods’ desires and drives. Truth and Justice are a long way down the list... One of its strongest virtues is that it continually evokes Joseph Wambaugh’s LAPD novels of the 1970s.
But it’s fifty years later now, and the situation is fifty years worse.
Everybody Knows shares its title with that cynical, elegant, distantly furious Leonard Cohen song about corruption as an open secret, and it does the subject proud.
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