“an ex-cop insurance investigator runs into a murder...only he's the only guy in a beachside southern california small town who thinks so. a "chinatown" clone in a matter of speaking in that everybody you meet in this is in on this, a conspiracy of greed. competently handled with a light humorous touch that takes this sunny california crime into the grimy depths of prison life in good ol' mother russia---and who saw that coming?--- before solving it, it's a light fun read is all.”
