{"id":12173,"date":"2019-02-27T10:49:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:49:55","slug":"echo-killers-by-danny-r-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12173","title":{"rendered":"‘Echo Killers,’ by Danny R. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A pair of armed robbers,<\/strong> one big, the other small, knock over a store in the rough Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles. The owner refuses to report the crime, but a little boy tells the cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same pair (apparently) hit another store shortly\nthereafter, killing a well-liked storekeeper and a wino on the sidewalk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Danny R. Smith\u2019s Echo Killers<\/a><\/em>, Detective \u201cDickie\u201d Jones has a new partner \u2013 a feisty Latino woman named Josie \u2013 and they join the hunt for a team of outlaws who mirror themselves, in a way \u2013 a big Anglo and a Latina. We learn the story of these two outlaws, too. They are Army deserters, and the woman doesn\u2019t know she\u2019s still being hunted by an officer she spent a night with once. Their almost star-crossed story bears the marks of tragedy, as the two hurtle toward one another on a fatalistic trajectory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the third volume in Smith\u2019s \u201cDickie Floyd\u201d series. \u201cDickie\u201d\nand \u201cFloyd\u201d haven\u2019t actually been partners since the end of the first book, but\nthey keep gravitating together. Their personal bond is a tight one. The book\u2019s mood\nis somber, but the ending is rather sublime \u2013 an affirmation of what Luther\nwould have called the policeman\u2019s \u201cvocation.\u201d Another book is coming, according\nto Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked Echo Killers<\/em> it a lot. Cautions for foul language, cop humor, and intense situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pair of armed robbers, one big, the other small, knock over a store in the rough Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles. The owner refuses to report the crime, but a little boy tells the cops. The same pair (apparently) hit another store shortly thereafter, killing a well-liked storekeeper and a wino on the sidewalk. … Continue reading ‘Echo Killers,’ by Danny R. Smith<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[647,767,834],"class_list":["post-12173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-danny-r-smith","tag-dickie-floyd","tag-echo-killers"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}