No Cure for Love

Trevor S. Raymond is a teacher and librarian with the Peel Board of Education and editor of Canadian Holmes.

Peter Robinson, a Toronto writer originally from England, is known for
his internationally acclaimed series of novels set in Yorkshire and
featuring CID Inspector Alan Banks. Here he gives us a change of locale
and very different lawmen. This is a police thriller set in Los Angeles
and San Francisco. And it’s a taut, violent, stay-up-late page-turner
of a book. “So you think we’ve got a psycho killer on our hands,”
says an L.A. cop. Indeed. As well as bizarre murders, we have
behind-the-scenes show-business settings, a smash-’em-up car chase, a
great plot twist, and a politically correct team of L.A. cops (one is a
Hispanic woman).

No Cure for Love has all the requisite ingredients for a movie. Perhaps
Robinson is being prescient when one of his characters, a famous actress
who is being stalked and taunted, muses, “Celebrities and murder. How
Hollywood love[s] the combination.” One small cavil: for all his work
creating a believable California atmosphere, Robinson will not please
the Disney folks by describing Donald Duck as a Warner Brothers
character.