Devil's Heaven
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Publisher Description
A killer targets New York’s gay community in this “well-plotted” police procedural in the Edgar-winning series (Publishers Weekly).
Neil Hockaday’s on furlough from the NYPD as he attempts to cut back on the booze, but his new wife, Ruby, is going back to her advertising job after the couple’s trip to Ireland. Unfortunately, the same day she returns to the office, her much-disliked ex-boss’s body is found, killed in grisly fashion and wearing a leather mask.
Meanwhile, some of Hock’s colleagues on the force appear less than interested in solving a string of murders in which gay men are the victims. Now the detective’s working on his own time, in cooperation with a private investigator he knows, to uncover the truth in a case that will take him everywhere from the Metropolitan Opera to the nightclubs of Manhattan.
“[A] beautifully written series.” —The Washington Post
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the dark and magical Drown all the Dogs (1994), special-crimes cop Neil Hockaday left New York City to probe his roots in Ireland, where he communed with dead and living ghosts, drank lots of Guinness and talked politics and philosophy. Now Hock's back in the Big Apple, on furlough from the force while doing his best to stay off the sauce. His new wife, black, New Orleans-born Ruby Flagg, returns to her high-level advertising job on the day that the beaten and mutilated body of Frederick Crosby, her odious former boss, is discovered in his apartment, a leather mask across his face and his arms and legs nailed to the floorboards. At the same time, someone is killing off gay men in the city, crimes given scant attention by the NYPD. Hock, helping out a PI buddy, unofficially hunts the killer and probes the Crosby murder, his footsteps dogged by a homophobic cop who shows up at every crime site. The narrative is well-plotted, but Adcock's prose here is less effectively lyrical than over-the-top (e.g., the account of Ruby's punching out Crosby in a former encounter) as Hock, somewhat self-pityingly, struggles with demons public and private for control of his sensitive Hibernian soul. Author tour.
