Badge City: Notches, by M. H. Norris
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Badge City: Notches, by M. H. Norris
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A place where the tenacity and the courage of the Police force is legendary? A town where criminals know there are still good cops they should fear? A family that bleeds blue generation after generation? Welcome to Badge City. A concept created by Tommy Hancock, Badge City focuses on three generations of a family of police officers in a city so known for the strength and honesty of its law enforcement agencies, the world knows it as Badge City. And Author M. H. Norris introduces the world to not only the city, but to one member of the most respected police family in town- Deidre Gaye Brighton Tordano in the digest novel Badge City: Notches. When young girls start showing up dead in family friendly locations around the city, Detective Deidre Tordano is called to solve the case. But between similarities to her daughter and the case getting close to home, does she have what it takes to find the culprit? Badge City: Notches follows Deidre as she solves a crime full of love, loss, and unheard cries. From M. H. Norris and Pro Se Productions.
Badge City: Notches, by M. H. Norris- Amazon Sales Rank: #1042657 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .29" w x 5.00" l, .29 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 126 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Resurrection of Golden Age Mystery By James Bojaciuk (A spoiler-free review.)The genre has decayed.Since the 1970s, when Agatha Christie breathed her last and one half of Ellery Queen's soul went the same way as Solar Pons' creator, the mystery genre has been on a downward trend. Mystery novels grow fatter as the plots grow thinner--and gone are the classic detectives, and cases that turn on logic and clues rather than gore.In Badge City: Notches, M.H. Norris does much to overturn these trends. Instead of a 100 page mystery spread out over the length of a phone book, we have a plot perfectly suited to its length. Norris, refreshingly, follows the dictums of Golden Age mystery: A) She plays fair with the reader. Though, at times, one wishes for a greater pool of suspects...Norris uses her pool to build into a perfectly realized twist of the knife which would do Christie proud. If you pay careful attention, and aren't one to get hung up on well-placed red herrings, you just might realize who the killer is before Detective Torando. B) The character work is secondary to the mystery. In recent years, I've read a number of bestselling mysteries that have--and I counted the pages--50 pages of plot to 200 pages of backstory, character development, and long musings on baseball or music. What we've been inflicted with are short stories let to grow wild, like mushrooms, until the central stem can no longer support them. Norris wisely avoids this, and it comes across like a sea breezeNorris' research into real-life police procedure and abnormal psychology come off the page, and are treated very engagingly. I'm from a family of cops. You get used to authors blundering about, making up every form of insane crap, then championing their own "research." Aside from some foibles with the climax, she has a wholly realistic police force. Bravo!The dialogue is flawless and the characters engaging. I wish there had been a mite more descriptive prose, but I'm a Victorian in a world of Tweets (and should probably be ignored). The only thing I find to trip over is that, in the storm of corpses, it can be easy to lose track of which corpse is which. To be fair, I imagine the police feel similarly, so even if this was unintentional it does support the theme and progression of the book.Frankly, what issues I personally had shoved aside, this is one of the best modern mysteries I've read. And, certainly, the best I've found thus far into 2015. Let us raise a glass to Norris, and that she may help to usher in another Golden Age!M.H. Norris, if you're reading this, I'm already impatient for the sequel.(Full Disclosure: I edited this book for Pro Se Productions, but receive no remuneration of any kind for either my edit, sales, or this review.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. The Deaths of Innocents By Raven Book Review: Saturday, April 4, 2015Badge City: Notches by MH NorrisAs a reviewer, I have sometimes had to put the best spin on a bad review that I can. But if I am critical when a book lets me down; I am not stingy with praise when it is excellent. And this book certainly falls into the latter category.Since I want this to be a major point for this book, I will bring it up at once. This is a sad but exciting murder mystery. Yet I do not believe I found a single use of profanity or innuendo in the entire novel! This proves that a murder mystery need not be full of foul language and suggestions to make for an excellent read. MH Norris has managed to weave a tapestry of murder and intrigue without having to insert anything that a young adult shouldn’t read.The heroine of the story, Detective Deidre Tordano, works homicide in Badge City, California. She is a wife, a mother of four, and well connected to the city through church, schools, and children’s sports. Now she faces one of the worst cases of her career.It began with the discovery of the body of a ten-year-old girl in Coal Hill Park. The child has died from exsanguination by way of notches cut into her arm. There are seven of them, plenty deep enough to reach the arteries, but there is no blood at the scene. The child’s body is covered in an adult sized pink jacket. By tracing the last sighting of the child, they find she was taken from inside the Westlake Rec Center. Having early soccer practice, the child had went inside to do homework while waiting on a ride from her grandparents. There is a number 6 carved into the desk where she sat, colored red with magic marker.Never an easy job, Detective Tordano has to inform little Grace Miller’s parents that she won’t be coming home. But the nightmare is only beginning. Soon there are reports of other girls the same age and also soccer players going missing. And one by one they are found—always covered with something as if the unsub was showing remorse, all having bleed out from notches carved into their arms.The notches vary greatly in number, and there is always a carved number colored red by magic marker in the place where the child was abducted. The cases pile up— Jessie Phillips. Emily Lee. Katelyn Summers. Natalie Parks. With five dead girls and no viable suspects, Detective Tordano wonders if it will ever end. Tordano’s own daughter Lilly is also ten years old and plays on one of the soccer teams. So far each murdered girl has been from different teams, but Lilly’s team is one of the few left who do not have a missing child.Deidre consults with a young woman who helps to run the Rec Center, Alexandria "Lexi" Lestrade. There she learns some more disturbing news. Not only are ten year old girls being murdered, but ten years ago Lexi had been raped by the Mayor of Badge City’s son, Steven Richards. Richards was never prosecuted for the rape, as the Mayor had influenced Tordano’s father, then a Homicide Detective nearing retirement to hush the thing up.Lexi had a girl from the rape whom she allowed to be adopted as a baby under the Mayor’s insistence. The Mayor paid for Lexi’s collage and made sure she got the job at the Rec Center to keep quiet. The girl would now be ten years old…The mystery builds nicely, as the Homicide Squad begins to make sense of the numbers and notches. But who is there to suspect? And how many more girls will have to die before the killer is caught? A specialty knife has been identified as the weapon used, but where is the scene of the actual murders?I think MH Norris does an outstanding job of laying down clues, utilizing deduction, and describing each and every scene in vivid color as Detective Deidre Tordano brings the case to a successful close. The body count has gone up, but the unsub has finally made an error the law can use. I give the book five stars out of five.Quoth the Raven…The Deaths of Innocents
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Couldn't put this mystery down until all was resolved in this face-paced book!! By Rhapsody07 This book is amazing! Norris' work is totally refreshing amidst way too many mystery novels so burdened with useless info that I put them down from boredom. This author's slick interweaving of details complements the fast pace! The unfolding storyline is shocking, extraordinary & creates heavy suspense. I was surprised that I couldn't set the book aside, but rather I had to read it to completion! Cleanly written, the story maintains a realistic depiction of the detective's family and work life. A highly captivating mystery!Question: Has Prose press contracted with MH Norris to write a sequel? I really want to know what Deirdre Tordano tackles next!!!
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