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Lives Laid Away

af Stephen Mack Jones

Serier: August Snow (2)

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"When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don't want getting around--and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. Preyed upon by the law itself, the people of Mexicantown have no one to turn to. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbors suffer in silence. In a guns-blazing wild ride across Detroit, from its neo-Nazi biker hole-ups to its hip-hop recording studios, its swanky social clubs to its seedy nightclubs, August puts his own life on the line to protect the community he loves"--… (mere)
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This time Snow is facing a bunch of human traffickers--with help from perhaps unexpected places--who kidnap non-White girls, treat them as slaves, and eventually kill them. This is certainly the most horrific of the crimes in the first three books of the series, but we know August will get to the bottom of it and make those evil folks pay. Of course he does, and the book is quite satisfying, if completely implausible (for the reasons explained in my review of the first book in the series.) The cast of characters is great and the author keeps adding new ones, all of whom end up having some unexpected talent or secret (usually both). The author's belief in the power of a computer hacker is a little overdone, however. ( )
  datrappert | Feb 15, 2024 |
The first book by this author August Snow, was unlike any other book. It took place in Detroit and it was fantastic. This Book- Lives Laid Away, is nowhere near as good as the first book. Think of this as a perfect by the pool or beach read, as long as you can get past the following:
1. A plot that would fit on a postage stamp.
2. An author who hates white people.
3. An author with ridiculously liberal views on illegal immigration.
4. Completely unrealistic non stop killings of bad people, on par with Rambo, Die Hard, or a terminator movie.
5. A lead character who claims to not be dazzled by money but name drops every liquor he consumes, and the clothes he and everyone wears.
6. A tour of where to eat in Detroit.
I hope the next book which comes out in May 2021 goes back to having an actual story. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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WHAT'S LIVES LAID AWAY ABOUT?
While August Snow is considering how to help out his neighbors in the middle of an ICE crackdown/intimidation campaign, his friend from the coroner's office brings him a case he can't get out of his mind. A young, unidentified, Hispanic woman was tortured, raped, killed, and dumped while dressed as Marie Antoinette. The police can't get anywhere with the case and are ready to move on. Falconi can't do that. So he comes to August for help.

Snow's not able to get the photos he's been shown out of his mind, either. So he starts looking into it—knowing the right people to ask, he's able to identify the woman within a day. This gets him looking in the right direction for answers—sadly, that direction is full of organized crime, disorganized crime, human trafficking, and corrupt government officials.

August gets backup in both his brushes with ICE and the murder case from new and unexpected allies. There's a lot going on in Detroit (and in his own past) that August had been previously unaware of, and he's likely going to wish he'd stayed in the dark before all is said and done here.

TOMÁS
We met Tomás Gutierrez, August's godfather, in the previous book and he provided some of the backup August required then. In this book, he's basically August's partner.

He fills the fairly typical modern detective sidekick role (Hawk, Joe Pike, Bubba Rogowski, Nate Romanowski, Nick Petrie's Lewis, etc.)—a little meaner, a little less bound by conscience, a little more prone to violence, has a better personal weapons stash, and so on. The big twist here is that he's so much older than August. I don't know if we're told his age anywhere, but he's no spring chicken—He's his godfather, was good friends with his parents, he has a grandchild. And while his age is mentioned every now and then, he seems too spry to be really believable in this role.

This might be because of the subjects of the book—his wife is being threatened, the dead woman was known to his wife, etc.—and in the next book, he won't be as involved in whatever is happening. If that's the case? I have no problem with it—but if he keeps acting as a partner, it's going to have to be addressed.

I like the character of Tomás and how Jones has been using him so far, I just don't know if he's a viable long-term option.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT PLACES LIKE THIS?
Back in 2019, I posted about M. W. Craven's Black Summer , and discussed how Craven's description of a seedy pub made me feel like I was there. I had a flashback to that moment when Jones described the biker bar Taffy's on the Lake here. It was so crystal clear and detailed that I felt like I was there. I don't know if it's me, and the one or two nasty bars that I've been in have stuck with me so much that when Craven or Jones describes one that I'm taken there, or if they're just so good that I'd feel the same way without personal experience.

I'm going to credit them with this, not just for the sake of my mental health. For example, in August Snow, Jones did a similar job with a small Mexican restaurant. In that case, his writing made me want to feel like I was there.

He's so good at describing places in a way that brings in all of your senses (there are other examples I could cite, but this one paralleled so nicely with Black Summer), that without ever stepping foot in Detroit (or the state of Michigan) that I can really get a strong feel for the settings.

SO, WHAT DID I THINK ABOUT LIVES LAID AWAY?
Is this as good as August Snow? I don't think so. But that says more about how good it was than about the quality of Lives Laid Away. This was intense and exciting. You're kept on the edge of your seat while being given things to think about.

At the same time, while August Snow had enough action to satisfy any thriller reader, Jones stepped up the violence this time. I don't know if this is the direction of the series in general, or if something about these circumstances brought it out in August, but wow. I can think of Jack Reacher/Peter Ash novels that contain less violence and action—I wouldn't have expected that given the first novel. This is not a criticism, I'm just putting that out there for potential readers—it really worked for me (although I'm not sure I needed all the "enhanced interrogation" scenes).

Along those lines, I'm not sure I really realized how ominous, "I gotta see a guy about a thing," could sound.

This isn't just a novel about a vigilante ex-cop on a crusade—it is that, but it's more—it's also about a city dealing with contemporary pressures, contemporary issues, and a troubled (to be nice about) past. What is Detroit becoming? How is it treating the people who live there? How should it be? These questions loom large while August is trying to figure out who killed these women and why. Lives Laid Away is a solid, action-filled thriller with a social conscience and heart. This is not a combination that you see that much, but I wish we'd see more of. ( )
  hcnewton | Mar 16, 2022 |
Fast read, well written, violent ( )
  maryzee | Nov 5, 2021 |
So close to a five star. Snow just feels a little too much like a superhuman and he makes a lot of bad choices that don't ever really catch up with him. That said, the pacing was great, and I appreciated getting more depth on some of the characters. ( )
1 stem Chris.Bulin | Oct 1, 2020 |
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"When the body of an anonymous young Hispanic woman dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette is dredged from the Detroit River, the Detroit Police Department wants the case closed out fast. Wayne County Coroner Dr. Bobby Falconi gives the woman's photo to his old pal August Snow, insisting August show it around his native Mexicantown to see if anyone recognizes her. August's good friend Elena, a prominent advocate for undocumented immigrants, recognizes the woman immediately. Her story is one the authorities don't want getting around--and she's not the only young woman to have disappeared during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid, only to turn up dead a few weeks later. Preyed upon by the law itself, the people of Mexicantown have no one to turn to. August Snow, ex-police detective, will not sit by and watch his neighbors suffer in silence. In a guns-blazing wild ride across Detroit, from its neo-Nazi biker hole-ups to its hip-hop recording studios, its swanky social clubs to its seedy nightclubs, August puts his own life on the line to protect the community he loves"--

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