Monday, September 28, 2009

NO GOOD DEEDS By Laura Lippman

This novel begins when Crow Ransom (boyfriend to Tess Monaghan PI) brings a homeless boy named Lloyd home for the night. They met when Lloyd comes by with a tire iron offering to change Crow's punctured tire. Crow knows it's a scam to get money and refuses but offers the boy a meal instead.After they eat Crow realizes that Lloyd has no home and doesn't want to leave him out in the cold night. Crow convinces Lloyd to come home with him, just for the night to explain what happened to the car tire to Tess.
After dinner Tess is talking to Lloyd about some of her work and she realizes by the boys behavior that he knows something about a murdered US Attorney. What could a homeless boy have to do with a US Attorney?
Lloyd tries to rob them that night but just ends up wrecking Crow's car and disappearing.
Tess then decides she must find out what Lloyd knows about the murder and gets her friend to help her track Lloyd down and trap him. Faced with the prospect of Tess calling the cops , he tells her he was hired to use the murdered man's ATM card and given the pin number.
Tess tells this story to the paper and then the police begin pressuring her to reveal her source.
When Lloyd's friend ends up dead, Crow and Lloyd are on the run with crooked cops after them.
8\10

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