Dark Fissures by Matt Coyle
This third Rick Cahill
dark thriller opened with him disgraced, and pulled over. Again. Cahill is an
ex-cop, a hard-boiled character with a melty-soft center, especially for his
dog, Midnight.
He left the La Jolla Police Department in California under a
cloud and Police Chief Tony Moretti has it in for him. Since he has to drive
through La Jolla regularly to access his mailbox, Moretti has plenty of chances
to target and harass him. Cahill was never charged with his wife’s murder, but
he wasn’t cleared, either. He’s implicated in another twisted series of events
that happened before the start of this book, but they follow him.
He’s on the verge of losing his house when a beautiful woman
drops a case into his lap. They meet at Muldoon’s Steakhouse, the place he
calls his office, and Brianne Colton tells him she wants her husband’s supposed
suicide investigated. They were separated, but he died in their house and was
discovered by their son when he came home from school. Colton doesn’t think
that’s what her husband would have done.
The more Cahill looks into it, the more he agrees with her. Up to
a point. Some strange things are going on with the band Colton plays in and
he’s not sure of her. When he learns the man’s cell phone is missing, he
knows he’s on the right track. He must face some of the
members of the police force he’s been ousted from in order to get the details.
If you like tight, fast, dark thrillers, you’ll do well to follow Coyle into
the dark fissure that runs through Cahill’s soul.
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