Rabbit Factory

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Marshall Karp: Rabbit Factory (2008, Allison & Busby, Limited)

288 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 2008 by Allison & Busby, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-7490-8057-0
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios. Once a small, Southern California animation house, it has grown into an entertainment conglomerate encompassing movies, television, music, video games, and a sprawling theme park.When an actor portraying Familyland's beloved mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit,is brutally murdered on park grounds, Lamaar executives are worried that the idyllic image of '50s America represented in Familyland will be shattered. They ask Mike Lomax and his partner Terry Biggs, the LAPD detectives assigned to solve the case, to keep the circumstances surrounding the death of their mascot quiet.When a second Lamaar employee is killed, Lomax and Biggs uncover a conspiracy to destroy Familyland and settle an unknown vendetta. Still under pressure to keep the case away from the public eye, the detectives are met with a third murder—and an outrageous demand: Anyone who associates with Lamaar—employees, customers, anyone—will be killed.Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the …

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4 stars

A wonderful combination of humor and mystery. My husband was even willing to listen to it with me until details of an assassin's past… Actually, though, overall it was tame without being boring or namby-pamby!
For the most part, the good guys were good, and the bad guys were questionable at best. The character development was admirable – when there were questionable motivations, the questions were not mapped unanswered, but I still wonder about Frankie…

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Subjects

  • Los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural