Primeros reseñadoresLou Manfredo

Brooklyn cop Joe Rizzo is ready to retire and spend the rest of his days with his wife, doting on their grown-up girls. But when his youngest daughter Carol decides to follow her dad onto the force, Joe decides to stay on until she’s settled, calling in favors to get her assigned to the easiest house, the best training officer— anything to protect his baby girl. And while there, he’s expected to work a few cases, though he never would’ve guessed that they’d include the most sensational one of his career, the murder of mob boss Louie Quattropa. If mob wars were the worst of his problems he could handle that, but with a daughter on patrol, Joe knows all too well what dangers await her and what little he can do about them. The authentic voice and their breath-takingly accurate portrayal of police work have won Lou Manfredo’s novel’s wide acclaim, and Rizzo’s Daughter raises the bar to a whole new level.

"There's no wrong, there's no right, there just is." In Lou Manfredo's powerful debut novel, this is the refrain of Joe Rizzo, a decades-long veteran of the NYPD as he passes on the knowledge of his years of experience to his ambitious new partner, Mike McQueen, over a year of riding together as detectives in the 62nd Precinct in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. They work on several cases, some big, some small, but the lesson is always the same. Whether it's a simple robbery or an attempted assault, Rizzo's saying always seems to bear out. And when they are given the delicate task of finding and returning the runaway daughter of a city councilman who may or may not be more interested in something his daughter has with her than in her safety, something that may or may not be evidence of his wrongdoing, the situation is much more complex. By the end of Rizzo and McQueen's year together, however, McQueen is not surprised to discover that even in those more complicated cases, Rizzo is still right--there's no wrong, there's no right, there just is.