The Literate Kitty

Have you ever seen a preview for a show (trailer for a movie, etc.) that really hooked you… but when you tuned in to watch it, found yourself not enjoying it so much as wandering about in the middle of an already long-running series, hopelessly lost?   Yeah, that. That’s what happened to me for much of February [insert the crying-buckets-face emoji here], as I struggled with (then put down, then picked up again, and rinse, repeat… multiple times) David Putnam’s The Ruthless … which I only found out afterward was book number eight ( yep, EIGHT! ) in an ongoing series. Oy. So, I’ll be breaking this experience down for you a bit differently than my norm. _______________ Bruno Johnson is a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Los Angeles Police Department, and has been, for… well, a reasonable amount of time, I’m guessing.  But… some utter shit has (apparently) gone down in Bruno’s life shortly before The Ruthless begins: namely, the abduction (and assumed— by Bruno —murder) of one of his