Review: One of many good short stories
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
This short story is one of many "River City" works by this author, which include several excellent full length novels. I suggest reading the novels first, and the many short stories last. The reviewer who complained about character development did not read the longer works where the characters are fully developed. Even so, I think the characters are sufficiently developed through their banter if this is read as a stand alone short story.This author is among the best writers of police procedurals today, and I can recommend any of his works without reservation because I have read them all. He has done his homework and obviously knows policemen and detectives from the Spokane area. The details in the writing are too true to life to have been acquired other than from those on the force. By setting his works in the fictitious "River City," the author has indemnified his sources.