“In Harley L. Sach’s latest police procedural, a transgender former Vice cop, Caryl Fox, tries to fit into his new job working as a Homicide Detective while investigating the ritualistic murder in a luxury retirement community of war hero. The troubled memories of his years in Vice still haunt Fox, especially when he’s summoned to this nasty scene and shortly thereafter to a second murder where the tattooed body of a Vietnamese Prostitute is found dumped and brutally strangled. Fox believes the two murders are connected. He tries to convince his ex-partner of this — a converted female Islamist working Vice, whom he kind of has a crush on. This sets up the long dark journey of finding what binds the two victims and uncovering the truth behind their violent murders.Mr. Sachs is at the pinnacle of a long writing career. His story flows flawlessly in an uneasy, dark world of sex clubs, of people masquerading behind curtains of social acceptance, and those that make a choice not to. The book is lonely, painful, and a must read. There is much heart to this story that spills out of the bloody crevices.”
