NPR's review starts:
I love crime fiction. Maybe I love it too much. That's what some people think. Whenever I review a mystery instead of a work of "Literature" with a capital "L," I get tetchy emails. But, I've always thought that Duke Ellington's take on music applied to books, too: "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind." So I'm going to tell you about a good book. It happens to be a crime novel.
LA Times called it, "the next great L.A. noir"