He Knows if You’ve Been Bad or Good...
A reader wrote to me about Poisoned Justice—and he wasn’t entirely happy: “I’ve never been a fan of hard-boiled detectives… I need to like somebody in the story [and] Riley just wasn’t a guy I wanted to spend time with, and I’m not sure how he could have been and still been believable in the role he was given.” My reader is right—mostly. Riley is dealt a hand which makes being gentle, trusting, and law-abiding unrealistic. In the tradition of noir, he confronts genuine ethi
