Detective First Grade

I had never heard of this author and picked this book up on a lark. What a pleasant surprise. It is of the police proceedural ilk but kind of different. He gives you a whole lot of detail. Towards the end, it was a bit too much detail but still interesting. New York City police detective Brian McKenna loves his job and is good at it but he also loves his girlfriend who wants him out. He's got at least one more good case that he has to wrap up first. Mahoney has others already out featuring McKenna. I'm going to get another one and give it a go.

Run of the mill police procedural with some charming moments. While Dan Mahoney was a veteran cop when he wrote Detective First Grade, he made some rookie mistakes as an author (too much expounding on the detaila of police procedure) in what is otherwise a well conceived kidnapping story from the policeman's point of view.