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Book cover: “Camouflage” by Bill Pronzini (Forge, 2011); audiobook read by Nick Sullivan (Bolinda, 2015)

Camouflage mostly concerns itself with Jake Runyon’s investigation of a personal matter (the abuse of his partner’s son). Nameless stumbles upon a gruesome but straightforward case. Alex Chavez comes in from the peripheries for some much-welcome development—and even a POV chapter. #NamelessDetective

Book cover: “Betrayers” by Bill Pronzini (Forge, 2010); audiobook read by Nick Sullivan (Bolinda, 2017)

The cases themselves are relatively slight, split without overlap between Tamara, Bill, and Jake Runyon. As ever, though, San Francisco emerges as its own gritty, gloomy, sordid kind of character, where life is a struggle and even the non-criminals mostly prove unpleasant. #NamelessDetective