“New York City has been home over the centuries to a plethora of killers, both real and imagined,” critic Anthony Rainone writes today in January Magazine. “But there’s still room for the psychologically tormented slayer who arises from Gotham’s seedy underbelly in Ladykiller, by husband-and-wife authors Meredith Anthony and Lawrence Light.” Reviewing this novel, set in 1991, Rainone highlights the story’s protagonist (Dave Dillon, known for his “drive and analytical powers”), the author’s decision to reveal the killer’s identity early on and make the rest of the book a high-tension cat-and-mouse game, and the relationship between the killer’s crimes and a West Side mental-health clinic that’s filled with “clearly unbalanced” clients.“Ladykiller is a blend of hard-boiled and softer elements, a fusion of crime, psychology and romance,” Rainone writes, a fast-paced work that’s especially remarkable for having been written by two people, yet featuring only “one voice throughout.”
Read the entire review here.
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