The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup Laura Wilson South Central Los Angeles, 1993: drug dealer Scrappy is shot and left for dead on her mother’s lawn. Addict Augie witnesses the shooting and, after applying some lifesaving first aid, takes the opportunity to steal both her stash and the gun, which has been left at the scene. When his parole officer discovers the items, Augie names two local gang members as the culprits in exchange for his continuing freedom. Wizard is guilty and Dreamer is innocent – of this crime, at least – but this becomes hard to prove when the gun turns up in his room … The title of award-winning novelist Ryan Gattis’s latest book,