Books

_Lullaby Town_, Robert Crais

In which the LA PI goes out to NYC and tangles with the Mafia. He kills at least seven people. All of them were bad guys. This time, he gets paid. In a different trend, here we have three out of three books in the series in which a male client or spouse of the client turns out to be a real jerk.

Taciturn sidekick is taciturn.

Books

_Lullaby Town_, Robert Crais

In which the LA PI goes out to NYC and tangles with the Mafia. He kills at least seven people. All of them were bad guys. This time, he gets paid. In a different trend, here we have three out of three books in the series in which a male client or spouse of the client turns out to be a real jerk.

Taciturn sidekick is taciturn.

Books

_Freefall_, Robert Crais

In which the hardboiled PI goes up against crooked cops and South Central drug dealers. This is 4/4 on untrustworthy males affiliated with the client, and technically 2/4 on not getting paid, although I would like to call it 3/4 as the payment is on an installment plan stretching for over four years, amounting to less than a nice dinner per month.

Many people are killed. The PI continues to only kill people who are bad. Notable for the PI being arrested and charged with murder... ironically, for people he did not kill.

Books

_Freefall_, Robert Crais

In which the hardboiled PI goes up against crooked cops and South Central drug dealers. This is 4/4 on untrustworthy males affiliated with the client, and technically 2/4 on not getting paid, although I would like to call it 3/4 as the payment is on an installment plan stretching for over four years, amounting to less than a nice dinner per month.

Many people are killed. The PI continues to only kill people who are bad. Notable for the PI being arrested and charged with murder... ironically, for people he did not kill.