DIRTY SWEET by JOHN McFETRIDGE

You have to love a book that takes it title from the lyrics of a T. Rex song. Toronto resident John McFetridge paints an interesting picture of the town- after seeing a few of Michael Moore's films, I thought Canada was some kind of crime less utopia. This book paints a picture of Toronto not much different than New York or Los Angeles, complete with criminals, prostitution, drugs, guns, and of course, murder. This is the first book in the "Toronto series" and you can definetly tell that this book feels similar to me to some of the early 87th Precinct novels by Ed Mcbain that I've also been reading lately, where the groundwork is perhaps being laid for a series of recoccuring characters. Except of course, the one's who die....