Mary T. (MaryTheCat) reviewed on 1/25/2010 + 15 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

Purely on the basis of the few chapters I could read before Amazon decided to cut me off, I am not going to get the book - I'm pretty sure I'd toss it out. It's an interesting set-up for a murder mystery: our hero knows only a few facts and knows what were the reactions of each of the major players. It would be fun to watch him tease out the truth of the matter, but ... Lawson's prose is so clunky I would not be able to bear it. Lawson uses way too many similes and metaphoric characterizations; he can't arrange the clauses of a complex sentence to unambiguously communicate who did what to whom and with whose whatsit; he does not even have an interesting inner life. Life's too short to spend it in the company of Lawson and his creations.

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