Murder Book

by Richard Rayner

Billy McGrath, a philosopher turned top L.A. homicide detective, has consistently resisted the temptations and injustices of a corrupt system. But McGrath's dedication to the job has cost him the woman he loves and the daughter he'd die for ... and he's finally reached his breaking point. So when the city's biggest crack dealer offers him $1 million in cash as trade for the identity of a man McGrath believes to be a stone-cold killer, he takes it. And thus begins the ruin of a good man, whose fall from grace will take him on a riveting ride through the darkness of a tarnished city, and into the deepest folds of his own soul.

Genres: Mystery

384 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2001

About the author

Richard Rayner is a British author who now lives in Los Angeles. He was born on December 15, 1955 in the northern city of Bradford. Rayner attended schools in Yorkshire and Wales before studying philosophy and law at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as an editor at Time Out Magazine, in London, and later on the literary magazine Granta, then based in Cambridge.

Rayner is the author of nine books. His first, Los Angeles Without A Map, was published in 1988. Part-fiction, part-travelogue, this was turned into a movie L.A. Without a Map (for which Rayner co-wrote the screenplay with director Mika Kaurismaki) starring David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, and, in an uncredited part, Johnny Depp.
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