Review: Not for most tweens and teens.  I will consider reading another book in the series.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
Detectives since Sherlock Holmes have held their audience's attention with sidekicks and gimmicks and character flaws. OCD Monk, absent minded Ellery Queen and Rabbi David Small who slept late.  In this book, the detective has a sleeping disorder.  He is only awake one hour in twenty four, starting from three am.  Working in hour blocks in the middle of the night was a good enough challenge to keep me entertained. His main sidekick, a cat with whom he imagines dialog. Heinlein used a cat sidekick like this inThe Door into Summer (S.F. MASTERWORKS)and I wondered if Mr. Pirog was inspired by Heinlein.  Having the President of the United States as one of the suspects stretched my credulity a bit. The ins and outs of infidelity and incest are needed to understand the solution, so this this book might challenge tweens or teens. There are also a few references to masturbation.  Descriptions of the corpse aren't too bad, but maggots might be hard on those with weak stomachs.