Fall Down Easy is the sixth hard-hitting, Vancouver-based crime novel featuring detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker.

Greg is a coke addict, weapons freak, professional heartbreaker, master of disguise - and bank robber. But his latest hold-up goes sour: there is a violent fight and a man is killed. Greg makes his escape with the victim's briefcase, to find it full of not money, but computer print-outs.

Willows and Parker are handed what rapidly becomes a hideously complex investigation. The dead man turns out to be a plainclothes Panamanian police officer, in Vancouver for unspecified reasons. It also proves impossible to build up any sort of profile of the chameleon-like killer…for what Willows and Parker can't know is that the man they're after is motivated by far more than a simple love of money.

Riveting, fast-moving, at times blackly humorous, Fall Down Easy is another winner for Laurence Gough.

Genre: Mystery