When a six-year-old girl is kidnapped off a residential street in broad daylight, every cop in River City must rise to heroic levels. Detectives scramble to solve the kidnapping. Patrol officers comb the streets looking for the missing girl.Racing against time, every cop on the job focuses on finding her.Before it is too late.Before they fail her.
Heroes Often Fail (River City, #2)
By frankzafiro
In the sequel to his debut novel and first story of the River City series, Under a Raging Moon, former police officer Frank Zafiro takes the series to the next level in Heroes Often Fail. Set in River City, the fictional town based on the real municipality of Spokane, Washington, of which Zafiro protected and served for many years, provides a continuing and authentic backdrop to the narrative that encapsulates you from the beginning. With a storyline that reads like a stunning televised episode of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order: SVU, the writing is unparalleled and rich with style that the author exudes within the genre. Leaving you on the edge of your seat, making your blood trill with thrill, Heroes Often Fail pushes the narrative to the unthinkable and reveals grim realities faced in the unpredictable nature of working in law enforcement. With intensity that leaves your heart pounding and moving at breakneck speed, Heroes Often Fails is not your atypical police procedural, and comes highly recommended if you’re looking for a harrowing piece of fiction that may give you chills, but also plenty of thrills. It is recommended to read Under a Raging Moon to provide adequate background to the River City series, but certainly can be read as a standalone, if you’re new to the works of Zafiro.
I learned from this book that I expect something positive to come out of books that I read. Not here; things go from bad to worse and isn’t that swell. The writing is fine except using proper tense, plural vs. singular, articles are at times as if written in someone’s second language. If you enjoy endings like mistakes were made so everyone dies, then this book might be for you. Oh, and not necessarily mistakes by those who got the blame. You know, kind of like real life on bad days. Not my cup of earl grey.
Well-written characters and story. I did not want it to end the way that it did, but, unfortunately, all too often, that is the way it works out.
I had to take note of some of the interrogation lines – I may have to use some of them the next time I sit down with a suspect. Working investigations, one has to work so much harder to retain those patrol cop instincts. Kopriva serves as a poignant reminder of the consequences of not doing so.
“Heroes Often Fail” is the story of what happens when a little girl goes missing and the local police force does everything in its power to find her. And then what happens when they fail to find her. The story is dark, gripping and plausible enough to be deeply unsettling. The book is filled with wonderful characters and great procedural details, and there are lots of other great things about the book that help make it easier to deal with the grim subject matter. For Zafiro fans, this is a must read, not only because it is a great story but because it provides important backstory for his noir mystery Waist Deep.