Review: Dark Horse by Rory Flynn

A Mysterious Review of Dark Horse by Rory Flynn. An Eddie Harkness Mystery.

Review summary: This is an intriguing and suspenseful mystery. Hurricanes approaching a city may seem like an overused plot device, but it really works here as a backdrop to the story. So, too, does the lead character's frustration in trying to do his job, only to be kept from protecting the very people he serves. Overall, a solid, strong entry in this promising series. (Click here for text of full review.)

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Dark Horse
Rory Flynn
An Eddie Harkness Mystery
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (June 2016)

Publisher synopsis: When a late-summer hurricane slams into Boston, Detective Eddy Harkness and his Narco-Intel crew are thrown into the eye of a very different kind of storm. Dark Horse — an especially pure and deadly brand of heroin — has infiltrated the gritty Lower South End. Harkness soon finds that the drug is also at the center of an audacious land grab by the city's corrupt new mayor and his shadowy power brokers.

Meanwhile, Lower South End residents displaced by the storm use an obscure bylaw to move into Eddy's hometown, and soon enough tensions are running high along Nagog's tree-lined streets.