Black Dog (Thomas Laird's Jimmy Parisi) ebook

by Thomas Laird

Thomas Laird is the author of The Underground Detective (2012). Thomas Laird lives in Peoria, Illinois.

Thomas Laird is the author of The Underground Detective (2012). He has published four other novels: Cutter (2001), Season of the Assassin (2003), Black Dog (2004), Voices of the Dead (2006). Customers Also Bought Items By.

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Struggling with personal fatigue and professional burnout, Chicago homicide detective Jimmy Parisi is confronted by a serial killer, known as Black Dog, who drains the blood from young women and leaves them to die, as well as the murder of an inner-city senior citizen, two cases that are complicated show more.

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Thomas C. Laird (born June 30, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and photographer who specializes in Tibet. Laird divides his time between New Orleans and Kathmandu, Nepal, where he lived for 30 years. At the age of 18, Laird left the United States and travelled, overland, alone, from Europe to Nepal, passing through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. He made that trip six times within the next two years.

Black Dog lives in the deep pit of the human soul, where desolation and depression also hang out. In this third Jimmy Parisi novel the Chicago detective is fighting against fatigue and homicide burnout. His latest case involves a killer—Black Dog—who is draining the blood from young women before leaving them to die. There are signs that a crude needle is being used in the process, and it looks like the work of someone who knows the art of mortuary science. Jimmy and his partner suspect that the blood is connected to satanic ritual and that vampire cults that celebrate the black arts are alive and well in sophisticated twenty-first-century Chicago. At the same time the homicide investigator is called to work on the murder of an inner-city senior citizen. The killing is listed as “low profile,” but that is soon to change. And then Black Dog gets personal with Jimmy —something very bad happens in his home life and the Chicago cop feels like a candle lit at both ends. Two killers to catch and a family tragedy to get through. It’s one hell of a ride, and in the end will Jimmy still be standing?

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I picked this up because I was in one of those "in between" points in one's day. Interesting title; interesting cover. That was about as far as it went. I became so tired of Jimmy Parisi talking to himself, repeatedly, his black dog, his girlfriend's death years ago, his nearly racist tirades, his friend Doc, Red, his wife, his son's depresssion, his depression, I wanted to kill myself.

Too many problems. On top of all of this, a serial killer who drains blood (a little Starsky and Hutch, no?) and then additionally, tortured animals. It's almost as though, how can I say this? It's almost as though Mr. Laird has lined up any number of plots and checks them off as he covers them. Good father who wasn't there for his son; good father whose wife died suddenly and he struggled on courageously; good cop who loses his mentor to retirement and it's too much to tell him how much he misses him. But none of those issues grabbed me, because they were superficially raised and then put away. I would think if one or two or three of those issues were addressed and then really examined and resolved over 20 or 25 chapters, it would have been more satisfying.

Finally, there is any number of diatribes about Catholics. Being anti-catholic is one thing; it's America. Have you listened to Michael Moore lately? But to be malicious and spiteful in your attacks, not very sporting, eh mate? I gave it 3 stars because of the superlative physical descriptions of one of the greatest cities in America. But Jimmy Parisi ain't no Spenser. Not yet. But I will read Mr. Laird again. Larry Scantlebury

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BLACK DOG has been hailed a superior thriller by the WASHINGTON POST, the CHICAGO SUN TIMES, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, and LIBRARY JOURNAL. It's a scary novel about modern Satanists and would-be vampires. Don't leave your windows open at night!

Clandratha

Thomas Laird's writing is certainly an acquired taste, at best. The second I picked up this book, my first thought was "Why the hell am I reading this?" The answer was simple enough- Mr. Laird's ideas and insight into the character's minds are crazy, yet seductive and intriguing. The book has grip- that is, to say, it literally turns the reader into the character. I am me, yet I am also Jimmy Parisi. Sick and impossible, but true. I found myself throwing the book at the nearest wall, or trying to kill it in other useless ways, whenever Jimmy had a new problem and I could feel his adrenaline while he was on the trail. Every jump, every twist, every heartbeat- they were all my own. I sometimes found myself shivering from the cold Jimmy felt, or weeping with him for his wife and son. Laird isn't shy, I'll give him that. He doesn't ease the reader into anything, just pushes them right into the ice-cold water... then holds them under.