It lay serene as they all loved and teemed and scrambled and strove.
Author Jennifer Giacalone had me with her first quote from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. She cemented my love with her characters’ joyful embrace of the variety of relationships that every New Yorker encounters before they get their first coffee of the day-gay, multi-ethnic, asexual, stupid, smart, handicapped, cross-religious, and of course, liberally laced with obscenities.Īnd she ensured her automatic-buy place in my book-heart with her combination love affair with New York- “The city didn’t care.
The banter is so much fun, the pace so rollercoaster, the characters so very flawed, that I raced through the book in one caffeine-fueled late night session. Girl motorcycle vigilantes rub shoulders with the mayor whose chief of police knows the newspaper publisher whose sister is a detective who is being manipulated by the district attorney who has a big beef with the deputy mayor who knows where the bodies are buried and whose brother is friends with the brother of the girl motorcycle ganger…ĭon’t worry if you missed any of that because it doesn’t matter. Despite the fact that the large cast lives in New York City along with roughly nine million other people, their lives intersect constantly. That’s how I feel about Loud Pipes Save Lives. It was the chemistry and banter between the lead characters which made it a classic detective noir. A cable was sent to author Raymond Chandler, who told his friend Jamie Hamilton in a Maletter: “They sent me a wire … asking me, and dammit I didn’t know either”. Despite missing her former partner, Miri, and fighting the ghosts of her past, Lily dedicates herself to the case, unaware that her own sister is mixed up in the swirl of violence and chaos.Īfter secretly reopening the file on her father’s death, Lily slowly unravels threads of history, discovering that both cases lead to corruption and betrayal at the highest levels.įeaturing an ensemble of characters as diverse as its New York City setting, Loud Pipes Save Lives is a thriller-mystery with a twist of queer representation.ĭuring filming of the Bogart/Bacall classic, The Big Sleep, the plot was so convoluted that neither the director nor the cast knew who committed at least one murder. There, she is assigned to the case of a women’s motorcycle club which has been committing acts of violence all over the city. New York City Detective Lily Sparr is stunned when she is inexplicably moved to the very same precinct that once upon a time handled her own father’s murder. A tangled web ensnares an unlikely group of New Yorkers unaware that they are connected, from cops to criminals to corporate shills, in this thrilling tale…
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