Mystery/Thriller -- 3 stars
Growing up, Kacey and Mickey, were inseparable. Only a year apart in age, the sisters shared a bed and their secrets after their drug addicted mother disappeared, leaving them in the hands of their hard-bitten grandmother, Gee. Mickey grew up to become a cop, Kacey, succumbed to the drug culture and Mickey occasionally catches sight of her on the street corner. Young street women disappear all the time, but this time it's Kacey; and Mickey is willing to put her job on the line if it means finding her. ----- This may be the most depressing police procedural I have ever read. It drips with wasted lives, lost hopes, and familial dis-function. "I shook my head. I walked away. She stood in place behind me, still and as sorry as an abandoned house." Told in alternating "Then" and "Now" sections, the story is well paced but pedestrian. The unexpected twists near the end are welcome, but there is nothing "bright" to be found in this story.
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