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by Eva Batonne Wow! Eva Batonne has certainly hit one out of the ballpark with the launch of the new Joan Lambert police thriller series. Resurrection Diva debuts Lambert as a gutsy detective in the LAPD's Special Cases Division. She has been thrown into a nightmare played out against the seamier underbelly of the Hollywood movie scene, involving nine missing women, children who have also disappeared but been forgotten, and a young woman from a very privileged background who dies and then hours later walks away from a coroner's gurney. There is a hint of the paranormal, drugs, porn, and even exotic Haitian voodoo. While trying to get her head around all of the quirks to this case, Lambert juggles demons of her own and a stalking ex-partner / ex-lover, all while trying to adjust to new partner Gus VanChek's gadgets and his poetic recitations, and new lover Coastal Eddy's surfer body and environmental crusades. Like many fictional detectives, Lambert is a maverick who takes a lot of risks while doing her duty. But these are especially dangerous since Lambert often gets in well over her head. Eva Batonne has certainly done her homework researching this new book. You half expect to find out that she had once been a detective because of the finely tuned details of the police work she casually relates as she moves from incident to incident, person to person, clue to clue. In truth, Batonne was a journalist and writer / producer of a documentary film series on American history called The Shaping of America. It is certainly our good luck as readers that she decided to turn to fiction. Resurrection Diva is a fine addition to police procedural mystery fiction. I can't wait to see what close scrapes Joan Lambert and Gus VanChek get themselves involved in next. Highly recommended. |
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Resurrection Diva