Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much police jargon. Too many characters for development. Mixed ending that made me wonder why I was able to finish the book.

I enjoyed this crime-busting police procedural tale. The events, etc. seemed pulled from the pages of the many reports filed by the dedicated men and women who serve as police officers throughout the country. Looking forward to the next story in the River City Crime series by former officer and author Frank Zafiro.

This is the first in the River City Crime series by Frank Zafiro which deals with the lives of a select group of Police Officers of the River City P. D. The main plot line,as such, is the hunt for Scarface, a robber of convenience stores, whose crimes are getting more and more violent as his crime spree progresses. When conventional Policing methods fail to catch him, a special task force is formed hoping to bring an end to his reign. The main focus of the novel however deals with the private li...

Great book.Not very often does a book grab on to my emotions the way this book did. You really get to know these characters, feel their frustration, their pain. One chapter actually had me in tears. I am definitely going to be following this author. Thank you for writing this book. I absolutely loved it.

I really liked this book. It was like watching a pretty good cop show on tv. The action was fast, the situations realistic, and I felt like I really got to know the characters.

I really in joyed the series. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.

A murder mystery that tells its story from the point of view of patrol cops rather than detectives and emphasizes that all police officers work together to solve crimes. The setting is River City, i.e., Spokane, WA, and I recognized the streets and intersections in the radio calls. The author is a 20-year veteran of the SPD.

Really liked book. Local author. Fun trying to figure out locations in city. Will continue the series.

I found this book a little hard to get into. Because of the multiple characters, it took a while to come together. I was gladI stuck it out. An excellent police procedural and insight into the psyches of many different police personalities. The storylinefollows the twists and turns associated with one criminal who manages to slip through the police's net more than once, and howhunting him down effects all of their lives. A good read.

UNDER A RAGING MOON (Police Proc-River City, Wash-Cont) - VGZafiro, Frank - 1st bookWolfmont, 2006- Trade paperback*** The police officers of River City are determined to stop a gunman who has been holding up convenience stores, becoming more violent with each one. *** Reminiscent of McBain's 87th Precinct, Zafiro presents an ensemble cast with the biggest difference being that these are uniformed officers, not homicide detectives and with that comes a realistic view of the challenges and frustr...

Half way through this book, I just gave up. I have no idea what the point of it was supposed to be. I presume it was supposed to be a novel about police officers in River City, a Washington town. Each chapter focused on a different cop - but the book didn't seem to move forward. I was so bored, I couldn't force myself to finish.

3.5 stars

Frank Zafiro was an unknown author for me when I purchased and downloaded Under A Raging Moon to my Kindle Reader, but the title and cover artwork caught my attention and interest enough to click on the purchase button. The story begins with a police office being tested by a psychologist after the officer had been involved in an officer involved shooting. A shooting in which the perp was killed but not before the office received a serious injury himself. We discovered that the officer not only d...

Rated 1.76Stefan Kopriva, a young hotshot. Katie MacLeod, a woman in what is still mostly a man’s world. Karl Winter, about to retire but with one more good bust left in him. And Thomas Chisolm, a former Green Beret who knows how dangerous a man like the Scarface Robber can be.These are the patrol officers of River City – that mythical thin blue line between society and anarchy. They must stop the robber, all the while juggling divorces, love affairs, internal politics, a hostile media, vengeful...

I couldn't read fast enough; not because I wanted to be finished with the book, but because it was suspenseful and I was eager to read what was going to happen next. As another reviewer mentioned, I was clued in to a couple things that were going to happen by the end of the book, but it didn't detract from the story for me. The characters were vivid with a variety of personalities. Most of us have come across some, if not all, of these types of people and can appreciate both the sense of camarad...

This one will be with me for a while. This Author Frank Zafiro should have 1000 GOLD STARS for the series River City Crime Mystery because it gives a look into what goes on with these BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WEAR A BLUE UNIFORM. Under a Raging Moon book#1 in the River City Crime Mystery by: Frank Zafiro shows friendship, rivalry among the ranks, bad guys vs. good guys, lose of friends and marriage, and the knowing that the really really really bad guys will be caught ( DEAD OR IN THIS CASE DEAD)...

FOR ME I DIDN’T CARE FOR THE WRITING STYLE, SORTA SLOW AND WORDY WITH A VERY LARGE CAST OF CHARACTERS. I THINK IT WOULD MAKE A BETTER VISUAL (movie)THAN READING, NOT SO MUCH. ;]

This story is gritty, with a heavy dose of realism. It doesn’t pull any punches, and is a bit on the dark side with rays of humor, often gallows humor, peaking through.

One of the slowest paced books I have ever read. I didn’t enjoy the format that this book was written in, instead of chapters, it was divided into days and times. A day and time was given, then a description of what a specific character was doing or thinking at that time, then another time and another character. It definitely, in my opinion, interrupted the flow of the main plot. Not that there really seemed to be much of a plot other than “police try to catch bad guy.” I agree with another revi...

Under a Raging Moon (River City Crime #1) Frank Zafiro. 308 pages River City, WA has a convenience store robber. This book describes the “life” of a handful of cops over a course of about a month. What it takes to catch a criminal, the police who die in the line of duty, the toll this life takes on their relationships, and their social life at Duke’s, where the police hang out. I agree with other reviews that there were too many characters to remember, especially in the beginning. It read a bit