Review: Amazing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2013
I didn't like this book for the first couple of chapters and almost gave it up. I didn't even like the title, but I bought it because of so many good reviews. But I stuck with it and in a short time I was trapped in it. There are many reviews that explain more of the book than I need to. What I will say is that once this book grabs you - and it will - it will not let you go. This is not like any other police procedural I have read (and I have read hundreds). This book gives more than a glimpse at how things really happen for good and bad and it feels true, not like a work of fiction at all. It's quite dark at times, but also quite funny at times as well, so you don't feel as if your caught in an endless morass of misery, like a Scarpetta story. Most of all, there is a sense of pathos for the main characters without sentimentality. This is a grand little book and I am very eager to read the next one.