Review: Why not some final justice for the readers of this lousy 4 some?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2013
This review applies to all 4 of the first 4 of the Justice Series by M Comley and not just to book 3.Final Justice, which it is most certainly not!I made the classic mistake of buying all 4 of the books in this series by M A Comley (fortunately I was unaware of there being a 5th) and found them to less interesting than a Kyoto phone book. The icon about whom the 4 books are centred is a luckless, hapless DI Lorne. She has what can only be charitably described as a tumultuous marriage with an exceedingly and irrationally jealous husband who cannot abide his wifes relentless and phrenetic dedication to her duty as a DI.Regrettably, one learns of the 'tenderness' that develops between the good DI and, of all people a forensic pathologist, of whom the already frustrated husband becomes aware, and this makes his temper tantrums escalate beyond the temperature of white hot steel, so he flounces about with the DI's sister and uses the daughter as a plaything in his 'games' with is wife.Add into this mix a sloppy, obtuse but allegedly clever partner, Pete and romantic pasts that link the good DI and the recipe is set for everything but a good crime thriller. Instead the reader is caught up in this increasingly absurd whirlpool of DI Lorne's conduct, real or imaginary.Add to this largely irrelevant mix a force of evil that just about requires a stake through his heart to kill him, and you might well have a pot boiler for some people, but certainly not me: never again will I waste so mush time looking for small nuggets of decent plotting and facts relevant to policing work.I started book 2 of the 'Justice series' and found that it suffered from the manifold flaws in narrative and plotting as did book 1. It also disposed of a few characters but the good DI Lorne remained caught in slightly different spirals, but she was still a completely unbelievable heroine (for me, anyway).I embarked on book 3 with some trepidation but found that it suffered from very similar vices to books 1 and 2.Having invested so much time in reading books 1, 2 & 3 I plucked up the courage to start book 4. I was a fool to do so, since it was as unbelievable as the 3 previous aggregations of words, emotion's and conflicts of interest and duty, that I could only stomach 3/4 of it. I went to the last 2 chapters to see if my forecasts as to the books conclusion were wrong, and I was disappointed that they were correct.It is the wholly unjustified mix of the personal life with the professional life that thoroughly appalls me.The only way this quartet of books could be described even as pot boilers is if they were in paper and used, literally, for heating water!