Book Review: A Fistful of Rain

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

A Fistful of Rain     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Greg Rucka
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Thriller
Bantam, August 2003, $23.95, 320 pp.

Famous and rich rock star Mim Bracca is notorious for getting drunk and blacking out and it becomes bad enough that her band sends her back home to Portland to dry out. Before she enters her new home, someone kidnaps her. They drive around for a few hours before he drops her back at her home. The police don’t believe her because she is famous for her lies.

Her day gets much worse when her brother Mikel drops by to tell her their father, after serving fifteen years for killing their mother, is out and living with him. Just when she thinks life can’t get any lower, pornographic pictures of her, which she didn’t pose for appears on the net. While trying to solve that problem she walks in to her brother’s place and finds him dead, a bullet in his head. When someone kidnaps her father for a $1,000,000 ransom, Mim stops getting defensive and works up the courage to track down the kidnapper before he can kill her and her father.

The protagonist is an alcoholic but she is able to stay away from the bottle long enough to come up with a plan to try to get her and her father out of trouble. She’s gutsy, feisty, and vulnerable, a combination that endears her to the audience who will root for her in the hope that she can get her act together. A FISTFUL OF RAIN is a suspense thriller that is a dark and gritty as Greg Rucka pulls no punches with this one sitting novel.

Harriet Klausner

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