A review by lola425
New Jersey Noir: Cape May by William Baer
4.0
French thriller/literary novels in translation are quickly becoming my favorite thing. The language is spare, but descriptive and the themes tend to be a little darker without all that pesky moralizing.
The widow Patience takes a chance and becomes a temporary godmother of a criminal drug operation. Raised amidst, but distanced from a criminal enterprise, her DNA takes over after years of trudging through the straight and narrow trying to make ends meet to raise her daughters and keep her mother in comfort at a care facility.
The best thing about this is that Patience does what she needs to do methodically, matter-of-factly, without spending too much time beating herself up over her choices.
Recommended for people who like their crime with no-nonsense women protagonists.
The widow Patience takes a chance and becomes a temporary godmother of a criminal drug operation. Raised amidst, but distanced from a criminal enterprise, her DNA takes over after years of trudging through the straight and narrow trying to make ends meet to raise her daughters and keep her mother in comfort at a care facility.
The best thing about this is that Patience does what she needs to do methodically, matter-of-factly, without spending too much time beating herself up over her choices.
Recommended for people who like their crime with no-nonsense women protagonists.