FOUR KINDS OF RAIN, by Robert Ward

(originally posted on September 15, 2006)

This may well be one of the most plausible noir novels I've read in some time as Ward takes his psychiatrist protagonist down what seems to be an innocent path, only to morph into something scarier and more calamitous with every plot turn. The things we do for love, it seems, turn out to be the worst decisions with ever lasting consequences.