Billionaire Orson Darcy\u2019s fatal plunge from the eighth floor of his Fifth Avenue apartment building would have seemed suspicious even if it weren\u2019t for the sign his killer left behind: \u201cDDD&R, I AM COMING FOR YOU.\u201d The \u201cYOU\u201d presumably includes Darcy\u2019s partners, Peyton Danforth, Richmond Dingell III, and Butch Rapp, and Det. Bridget Washington, the newly promoted head of the NYPD\u2019s Prime Cases Squad, will have her hands full keeping them safe. So it\u2019s lucky that Frank Verity, a New York Examiner reporter fired after he was sued for libel by a crooked developer, is constantly being pushed forward by Sonny McHale, his best friend at the Examiner, who\u2019d like nothing better than to cradle Frank in her arms. The intruder who defenestrated Darcy is soon identified to the reader, and not long thereafter to Frank, Sonny, and Bridget, as Jeffrey Hayder, whose scheme to secure his future by slipping illegal tips to the partners hit a snag when they framed him for insider trading and he was imprisoned. The many bite-sized flashbacks designed to provide information about the characters\u2019 motivations mainly have the effect of sowing confusion, and the billionaires marked for extinction manage to be both corrupt and uninteresting. But even readers untroubled by the prospect that Ceci Darcy, the widow who\u2019s suddenly been catapulted into a partnership, may be targeted may well root for Bridget, Sonny, and Frank, because that\u2019s what you\u2019re supposed to do.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Billionaire Orson Darcy\u2019s fatal plunge from the eighth floor of his Fifth Avenue apartment building would have seemed suspicious even if it weren\u2019t for the sign his killer left behind: \u201cDDD&R, I AM COMING FOR YOU.\u201d The \u201cYOU\u201d presumably includes Darcy\u2019s partners, Peyton Danforth, Richmond Dingell III, and Butch Rapp, and Det. Bridget Washington, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}