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Title: Hollywood Crows

Author: Joseph Wambaugh

Narrator: Kerry Shale

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-08

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Ltd

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

So when two crows find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think she's just a cute hill bunny. In fact, she's setting them up so she can pull off the perfect murder and walk away with her ex-husband's ill-won fortune. But Margot isn't the only one with a deadly plan.

This hotly anticipated sequel to Hollywood Station is narrated once again by master of dialogue Kerry Shale, who captures the frenetic life of the Los Angeles station with his trademark verve and brio.

Critic Reviews:

"Oddball characters, quirky dialogue, and nimble plotting. Wambaugh is still the best in the business!" (Kathy Reichs)

"Wambaugh has a fine ear for dialogue and a sense of humour he uses with discretion...witty and passionate." (Times Literary Supplement)

"Wambaugh's back and better than ever." (Independent on Sunday)

"I have been waiting a long time for this book and two pages in, I knew it was worth every minute, month and year. Joseph Wambaugh is the master of the modern police novel - no, scratch that, he invented the modern police novel....A story of cops working the street at the same time the streets areworking the cops, it's full of the grit, humor and truth that make it impossible to put down." (Michael Connelly)

Members Reviews:

A Worthwhile Hollywood Sequel

The first sequel in the Hollywood series of books is both easy and entertaining. Of course, like all of these epics, it opens with the two surfer cops, and then broadens to include a variety of characters that are all interesting. You can see where the plot is heading long before it reaches its destination, but this isn't a criticism as much as an observation. Furthermore, this book isn't "a bummer" as the "Entertainment Weekly critic described it in his brief review. "Hollywood Crows" concerns members of the Los Angeles Police Department that serve as 'Community Relations Officers who deal with quality of life predicaments, I.e., blocking somebody's driveway. Limbaugh introduces us to a number of characters who concern themselves with quality of rights issues as well as regular cops who patrol the streets and nab criminals. Some of the plots conclude with tragic consequences, but all the villains get what they deserve. The chief plot is about the owner of a strip club who is in the middle of a divorce and his 'hottie' wife who takes advantage of the ranks. Naturally, Wambaugh's is easy to read.

"We're Gravy, Bro"

If you didn't know it was Joseph Wambaugh, you'd swear that Carl Hiaasen took a vacation in LA, hung out with the LAPD, and wrote this cynically funny tale of cops and those they protect, and especially those who they are protected from. But Hiaasen could never tell a police story with Wambaugh's authority, and only an ex-cop could render it with Wambaugh's sincere passion for the men and women in blue.

Like it's predecessor, "Hollywood Station", "Crows" (short for LAPD's "Community Relations Office") is told through a series of Hill Street Blues-style vignettes loosely wrapped around a central plot.