From Amazon.com
Inside this beautifully designed (by Deborah Kerner) package of shaded pages and unusual fonts is a gorgeously written thriller about perception and perversity in a city famous for its unusual takes on both. Photographer Kay Farrow prowls the streets of San Francisco by night, because she's an achromat: she suffers from total color blindness, a much more serious (and much rarer) condition than the red-green variety. But Kay's affliction has also enhanced her artistic talent: she takes terrific black and white pictures that bounce off gallery walls and into books. The murder and mutilation of a young male street hustler she has become close to while shooting for a new book changes Kay's nocturnal roamings into a search for truth and justice. And the extraordinarily gifted David Hunt (who under his real name, William Bayer, wrote those Janek novels--
Switch,
Wallflower,
Mirror Maze--which became TV movies starring Richard Crenna) fills his wonderful book with details of everything from magic and martial arts to bread-making.
From Library Journal
Kay Farrow is a photographer canvassing the seedy underworld of San Francisco. Colorblind, she shoots only in black and white, but her keen, talented eye makes her work unique. When one of Kay's subjects, a young male prostitute named Tim Lovsey, is murdered, police indifference and a unique ability to capture what others cannot see compels her to pursue the investigation herself. As she digs deeper, Kay discovers similarities to an earlier unsolved murder case in which her father, a former policeman, was involved. Hunt (the pen name of a novelist living on San Francisco's Russian Hill) provides a gritty account of the city's darker side but fails to develop an original plot. The writing is also poor. Not recommended.?John Noel, Tennessee Technical Univ. Lib., Cookeville
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