‘River of Lies’ by James L’Etoile. Oceanview Publishing, 384 pages, $18.99
The politics of homelessness — from those that resent housing for the displaced of their neighborhood to builders who see that land as prime actual property — flows all through “River of Lies,” the second novel in James L’Etoile’s new sequence about Sacramento police Detective Emily Hunter.
L’Etoile delivers a tightly packed police procedural with a powerful present of plausible motion balanced by an in depth have a look at the non-public lives of his characters.
A number of homeless camps stretch out all through Sacramento, a controversial state of affairs all through town as residents complain about them. However these days arsonists have attacked three camps inside a two-week interval, destroying the meager possessions of the homeless, “town’s forgotten shadows.”