'Say Nice Things About Detroit,' by Scott Lasser Say Nice Things About DetroitBy Scott Lasser(Norton; 267 pages; $25.95)Thomas Wolfe's 1940 novel, "You Can't Go Home Again," published posthumously, captured a distinctly American spin on the prodigal son story, which remains as contemporary as ever. Reeling from a divorce and the death of his only son, David's looking - albeit subconsciously - for a blank slate, and finds it after the murder of a high school girlfriend, Natalie, and her half-brother, ex-FBI agent Dirk, becomes the local news story that welcomes him back home. When David reads the newspaper account of the murders, he notices that, Dirk looked a little older in the newspaper photo ...