In the still of the night a beautiful woman’s spine is broken as she watches her boyfriend burn to death out on a creek. Daltrey, a young detective with the Vancouver Police Department, who likes to work outside the system and has time for no one, wants to know why. With the help of a young electronics genius unwittingly turned model, a legendary but aging private detective, and a host of others tied together by the mayhem of Vancouver’s seedy underbelly, Daltrey hunts a psychopath through webs of prostitution, deception, and savage violence. As undeniably funny as it is dark, Burn is at once a tale of revenge and of the elusive fantasies of truth driving each of its larger than life but deeply flawed hero’s, villains, and strange tag alongs. Paul Slatter offers a rare portrait of the lies and madness at the heart of modern life, revealing a host of hilarious desires, perversions, and raw psychotic impulses that are often too close for comfort, and somehow still keeps us laughing on every page. $5.99 on Kindle.
