Review: Good mystery, but it needs a glossary!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
The mystery itself was well crafted.  There were plenty of twists and turns, and the brief digressions from victims' standpoints really added to the story.  That being said, I had two complaints:  first, his characterizations are rather flat.  By the end of the book, I still felt that DC Cullen was more of a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out than a person.  Second, there is so much regional vernacular that it was sometimes hard to follow.  Dictionaries rarely cover the highly localized vernacular he used in abundance.  I know "ken" and a few of the other terms, but, for example, a "filter" does not show up with a reasonable definition in an American dictionary except as a "filter cigarette".  It was fairly obvious from the text that we were not talking about a "filter cigarette".  I stuck with the book to the end, but am not particularly interested in reading another "Scott Cullen" mystery.