It’s easy for me to share my opinion about other writers’ work when it’s good.
LA Sniper by Steve Gannon is a detective story set in Los Angeles. It could even be called a police procedural because the details about how the LAPD works are so thorough.
I had never heard of Steve Gannon before, and I voted for this book in the Kindle Scout program because Amazon sent me an e-mail offering me half-off a book if I voted. I publish with KDP, so I am well-aware that many superb writers (Not me, the rest of them) work through Amazon to publish. Even so, the stereotype about books published through Amazon made me wonder just what I would be getting when I read LA Sniper.
What a delightful surprise. Absolutely top-notch writing, which just goes to show that stereotypes serve no one well.
The book is a little off my beaten track for two reasons. For one thing, the conclusion struggles between hope and depression. There is a very emotional ending and a message of hope, but to get there the author passes through some spiritually dark-as-night places, and I was a bit uncomfortable with that.
Second reason: There’s a gratuitous sex scene which, as far as I can tell, has no bearing on the plot.
Those caveats aside, there’s one more particular reason to give LA Sniper a read:
Gannon gets the guns right.
About 99% of action novels clearly demonstrate that the author has never so much as seen a gun that wasn’t in a movie. They’ve got revolvers with safeties, they’ve got people racking the slide back and forth just because it sounds scary, and on and on. It causes me to gnash my teeth.
I have no idea whether Mr. Gannon is a gun guy but if he’s not, he clearly did the research necessary to write like one. Exceptional detail, all of it correct.
Check out LA Sniper by Steve Gannon. If you like guns and good writing, you’ll be glad you did.