Cliff Walk.(Brief article)(Book review)

Cliff Walk Bruce DeSilva. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3237-0

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The legality of prostitution in Rhode Island figures prominently in the plot of DeSilva's sterling follow-up to 2010's Rogue Island, which won Edgar and Macavity awards for best first novel. Liam Mulligan, a reporter for the declining Providence Dispatch, must handle a range of stories, from the discovery of body parts in Scalici Recycling's pig farm in Pascoag to the apparent murder of Sal Maniella, pornographer and owner of several strip clubs, whose body is found on the rocks below Newport's famed Cliff Walk. …