Review: COLDWATER by Tom Pitts

3 Stars

COLDWATER is California Noir, pulp-ish and violent, hard-core gritty. The setting is primarily Sacramento, where one couple moved from San Francisco after a miscarriage. Gary hates his job but endures, and tries half-heartedly to quit smoking. Linda works for the State in the Health Department, considers Chinese adoption, and nags Gary about smoking--a lot. 

They live in a tract neighborhood, and when the couple across the street moves out, a quartet of mismatched criminal squatters moves in under cover of darkness. The consequence are ugly and unsettling.