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* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law Frank Donner is a trusted crony of his and member of his crime syndicate.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the books end with the case solved, but little real sense of anyones lives being improved or magically fixed by Tobin's efforts, with some people still dead, others still hurting, painful truths having been unravelled and (for the first three books) Tobin having made no CharacterDevelopment and still wanting to retreat from the world.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the books end with the case solved, but little real sense of anyones lives being improved or magically fixed by Tobin's efforts, with some people still dead, others still hurting, painful truths having been unravelled and (for the first three books) Tobin having made no CharacterDevelopment and still wanting to retreat from the world.
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* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law Frank Donner is a trusted crony of his and a member of his crime syndicate.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the books end with the case solved, but little real sense ofanyones anyone's lives being improved or magically fixed by Tobin's efforts, with some people still dead, others still hurting, painful truths having been unravelled and (for the first three books) Tobin having made no CharacterDevelopment and still wanting to retreat from the world.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: Kerrigan to mob boss Rembek in the firs book.
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* HyperCompetentSidekick: In the first book, Kerrigan to is far more insightful and collected than his mob boss Rembek in the firs book.employer, Ernie Rembek.
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* DesiresPrisonLife: The 3rd book takes place at a halfway house of sorts, easing recently discharged mental patients back into society. Many of them seem apprehensive, or outright not ready and one [[spoiler: has spent years hiding in the attic and just mingling with newcomers who don't know he doesn't belong there due to having nowhere else to go and having developed an attachment to the place]].
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* ArmoredClosetGay" Bruce in the fourth book, who hotly denies that he's gay despite having had sex with men and threatens anyone who he this will tell his mother.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law is a trusted crony of his and member of his syndicate.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law is a trusted crony of his and member of his syndicate.
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* ArmoredClosetGay" ArmouredClosetGay: Bruce in the fourth book, who hotly denies that he's gay despite having had sex with men and threatens anyone who he this will tell his mother.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law Frank Donner is a trusted crony of his and member of his crime syndicate.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law Frank Donner is a trusted crony of his and member of his crime syndicate.
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* ClearMyName: Most of the second book has Tobin trying to prove a murder wasn't committed by his hippie second cousin.
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* ChekhovsSkill: In the first book the police record of [[spoiler:Frank Donner]] includes [[spoiler:forgery and arson]], with him having [[spoiler:forged a note from Rembek's girlfriend saying that she was cheating on him and had stolen his money, as well as blowing up Tobin's office with a firebomb]].
* ClearMyName: Most of the second book has Tobin trying to prove amurder double-murder wasn't committed by his hippie second cousin. The last act of the fourth book also has him trying to prove the police have the wrong man (although in that case he's already figured out who the right one is).
* ClearMyName: Most of the second book has Tobin trying to prove a
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* DrJerk: Dr. Fredericks from the third book is a psychiatrist version. He's an aggravating man more obsessed with proving his theories than actually helping the patients, but he is genuinely good at causing them to reach important breakthroughs.
* FriendOnTheForce: Tobin has a few old colleagues who he sometimes gets help form, most frequently Marty Kengelberg (who, ironically, is still bitter towards Tobin for getting his partner killed in the first book but mends fences with him by the end).
* FriendOnTheForce: Tobin has a few old colleagues who he sometimes gets help form, most frequently Marty Kengelberg (who, ironically, is still bitter towards Tobin for getting his partner killed in the first book but mends fences with him by the end).
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* DrJerk: Dr. Fredericks from the third book is a psychiatrist version. He's an aggravating man more obsessed with proving his theories than actually helping the patients, but he is genuinely good at causing them to reach important breakthroughs.
breakthroughs in their treatment.
* FriendOnTheForce: Tobin has a few old police colleagues who he sometimes gets help form, most frequently Marty Kengelberg (who, ironically, is still bitter towards Tobin for getting his partner killed in the first book but mends fences with him by the end).
* FriendOnTheForce: Tobin has a few old police colleagues who he sometimes gets help form, most frequently Marty Kengelberg (who, ironically, is still bitter towards Tobin for getting his partner killed in the first book but mends fences with him by the end).
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* PoliceBrutality: Shows up a few times, most notably with Grinella, a detective Tobin ends up paired with for the final act of the fifth book.
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* NeverTheObviousSuspect: Averted, with the most blatantly shifty and obvious suspect being guilty in the [[spoiler: second]] and [[spoiler:fourth]] novels, although other times it's played straight.
* NotUsedToFreedom: The 3rd book takes place at a halfway house of sorts, easing recently discharged mental patients back into society. Many of them seem apprehensive, or outright not ready and one [[spoiler: has spent years hiding in the attic and just mingling with newcomers who don't know he doesn't belong there due to having nowhere else to go and having developed an attachment to the place]].
* OffTheWagon: One of the mental patients, a recovering alcoholic, goes run-in for the nearest bar due to the stress of the crimes in book 3.
* OpenSecret: Everyone in the fourth book knows how Jamie the murder victim cheated on his partner except for said partner and one other friend.
* PoliceBrutality: Shows up a few times, most notably with Grinella, a detective Tobin ends up paired with for the final act of the fifthbook.book.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Both the murder victim and his friend Leo Ross in the fourth book are black and gay.
* NotUsedToFreedom: The 3rd book takes place at a halfway house of sorts, easing recently discharged mental patients back into society. Many of them seem apprehensive, or outright not ready and one [[spoiler: has spent years hiding in the attic and just mingling with newcomers who don't know he doesn't belong there due to having nowhere else to go and having developed an attachment to the place]].
* OffTheWagon: One of the mental patients, a recovering alcoholic, goes run-in for the nearest bar due to the stress of the crimes in book 3.
* OpenSecret: Everyone in the fourth book knows how Jamie the murder victim cheated on his partner except for said partner and one other friend.
* PoliceBrutality: Shows up a few times, most notably with Grinella, a detective Tobin ends up paired with for the final act of the fifth
* TwoferTokenMinority: Both the murder victim and his friend Leo Ross in the fourth book are black and gay.
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A Creator/DonaldWestlake series about Mitch Tobin, a disgraced NYPD officer and DefectiveDetective. Tobin was fired from the NYPD after his partner die during an arrest when Tobin wasn't there to watch his back due to having snuck off to have an affair. Tobin is a detective with no interest in being a detective, who (for most of the series) takes jobs just for the funds to remain isolated from a world that floods him with painful reminders and self-loathing. Each novel but the last one features Tobin's investigation bringing him into contact with a sub-culture of some kind (mafia members, flower children, mental patients and the gay community).
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A Creator/DonaldWestlake series about (although he used the PenName Tucker Coe at the time) following Mitch Tobin, a disgraced NYPD officer and DefectiveDetective. Tobin was fired from the NYPD after his partner die during an arrest when Tobin wasn't there to watch his back due to having snuck off to have an affair. Tobin is a detective with no interest in being a detective, who (for most of the series) takes jobs just for the funds to remain isolated from a world that floods him with painful reminders and self-loathing. Each novel but the last one features Tobin's investigation bringing him into contact with a sub-culture of some kind (mafia members, flower children, mental patients and the gay community).
* DefectiveDetective: Tobin, given his avoidant personality disorder and guilt complex.
* FriendOnTheForce: Tobin has a few old colleagues who he sometimes gets help form, most frequently Marty Kengelberg (who, ironically, is still bitter towards Tobin for getting his partner killed in the first book but mends fences with him by the end).
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* KarmaHoudini: One of the murderous gang of thieves from the final book apparently escapes.
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* KarmaHoudini: One of the murderous gang of thieves from the final book apparently escapes.escapes.
* PoliceBrutality: Shows up a few times, most notably with Grinella, a detective Tobin ends up paired with for the final act of the fifth book.
* PoliceBrutality: Shows up a few times, most notably with Grinella, a detective Tobin ends up paired with for the final act of the fifth book.
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A Creator/DonaldWestlake series about Mitch Tobin, a disgraced NYPD officer and DefectiveDetective. Tobin was fired from the NYPD after his partner die during an arrest when Tobin wasn't there to watch his back due to having snuck off to have an affair. Tobin is a detective with no interest in being a detective, who (for most of the series) takes jobs just for the funds to remain isolated from a world that floods him with painful reminders and self-loathing. Each novel but the last one features Tobin's investigation bringing him into contact with a sub-culture of some kind (mafia members, flower children, mental patients and the gay community).
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* AffablyEvil: Most of the mobsters from the first book, paticualry Ernie Rembek, who has a dangerous reputation but spends most of the story as a soft-spoken, cordial figure in mourning over his murdered mistress.
* ArmoredClosetGay" Bruce in the fourth book, who hotly denies that he's gay despite having had sex with men and threatens anyone who he this will tell his mother.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law is a trusted crony of his and member of his syndicate.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the books end with the case solved, but little real sense of anyones lives being improved or magically fixed by Tobin's efforts, with some people still dead, others still hurting, painful truths having been unravelled and (for the first three books) Tobin having made no CharacterDevelopment and still wanting to retreat from the world.
* CampGay: Both played straight and averted in the fourth book, which features different kinds of CampGay and StraightGay characters.
* ClearMyName: Most of the second book has Tobin trying to prove a murder wasn't committed by his hippie second cousin.
* DrJerk: Dr. Fredericks from the third book is a psychiatrist version. He's an aggravating man more obsessed with proving his theories than actually helping the patients, but he is genuinely good at causing them to reach important breakthroughs.
* HappilyMarried: Tobin and his wife, in spite of his past adultery.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Kerrigan to mob boss Rembek in the firs book.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Both played straight and subverted with the various kinds of mental patients in the third book.
* ItsAllMyFault: Tobin suffers from severe, and somewhat justified, mental anguish over his partners death.
* KarmaHoudini: One of the murderous gang of thieves from the final book apparently escapes.
!! Tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Most of the mobsters from the first book, paticualry Ernie Rembek, who has a dangerous reputation but spends most of the story as a soft-spoken, cordial figure in mourning over his murdered mistress.
* ArmoredClosetGay" Bruce in the fourth book, who hotly denies that he's gay despite having had sex with men and threatens anyone who he this will tell his mother.
* BestFriendsInLaw: Ernie Rembek's brother in-law is a trusted crony of his and member of his syndicate.
* BittersweetEnding: All of the books end with the case solved, but little real sense of anyones lives being improved or magically fixed by Tobin's efforts, with some people still dead, others still hurting, painful truths having been unravelled and (for the first three books) Tobin having made no CharacterDevelopment and still wanting to retreat from the world.
* CampGay: Both played straight and averted in the fourth book, which features different kinds of CampGay and StraightGay characters.
* ClearMyName: Most of the second book has Tobin trying to prove a murder wasn't committed by his hippie second cousin.
* DrJerk: Dr. Fredericks from the third book is a psychiatrist version. He's an aggravating man more obsessed with proving his theories than actually helping the patients, but he is genuinely good at causing them to reach important breakthroughs.
* HappilyMarried: Tobin and his wife, in spite of his past adultery.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: Kerrigan to mob boss Rembek in the firs book.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: Both played straight and subverted with the various kinds of mental patients in the third book.
* ItsAllMyFault: Tobin suffers from severe, and somewhat justified, mental anguish over his partners death.
* KarmaHoudini: One of the murderous gang of thieves from the final book apparently escapes.
