Long Beach Detective Danny Beckett and his partner, Jen Tanaka, begin investigating the crime that doesn't seem to have any suspects, until suddenly, a number of possible murderers materializes.
And after reading the entire book in a day (thanks, insomnia) I am shocked that this is Dilts' first book.īeth Williams, an English teacher, is brutally murdered one night in her classroom. If you follow my book reviews, you know this is a genre I tend to read a lot of, so I'm pretty particular about this type of book. If you're a fan of the detective/PI-typed mystery, I highly recommend that you read Tyler Dilts' The King of Infinite Space. There is definitely something in the works between the two, and I have no doubt that it will come out in some future Dilts title. In addition, he has such a good ear for the Long Beach area that I feel like dropping in at some of the restaurants he mentions and checking them out.īeckett's partner in homicide is the luscious Jen Tanaka, a black belt in aikido. He comes to the genre with an extensive background and a rich frame of reference. Tyler Dilts teaches writing at Cal State Long Beach. It's good to think that noir has a future in Southern California, where it was born under the skillful pens of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
His wife Megan had died several years previously in a grisly crash sandwich between two trucks, and his homicide cases have an eerie way of messing with his past and involving him personally (at least in the two novels I read, the other being A Cold and Broken Hallelujah). Long Beach homicide detective Danny Beckett definitely has bad dreams. A King of Infinite Space takes its title from Hamlet: "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." This is the second Long Beach Homicides novel I read by Tyler Dilts, but the first that he wrote and published.
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