Every time another installment in John Zakour's over the top gumshoe adventures comes out I mean to read it...but never quite get to it due to the stack of really important, serious books on top of it. That may have been a mistake. It helps if you're a fan of noir gumshoe stories...though not too serious a fan, because you have to endure a humor density about as deadly as depleted uranium. But besides the frivolity and formulaic plotting, the adventures of Zach Johnson turn out to be engaging as well as funny in a blunt trauma sort of way.

(Source: DAW)