Title: Well-Written, but Atrociously Edited
Product review: This is a well-told story in a beautiful setting. The action, characters, and plot twists in this novel are everything I look for in excellent crime fiction. Unfortunately, no one bothered to edit this book.Once a chapter, there's a garbled sentence of the type "She walking down the street." Other sentences carelessly repeat words, such as "A troop of ideas trooped across her mind." Proper names are regularly mangled: MacArthur vs McArthur, Frieburg vs Freiburg, Maggie Archer vs Marion Archer. And what is a STATE police cruiser doing at a COUNTY crime scene? In a carefully edited book, it would be a clue, but in this book it's just sloppy work.These mistakes are incredibly distracting. Normally, being a careful reader enhances my pleasure in a well-written book, but I would probably liked this book more if I read it more casually. Whoever was paid to be this book's editor has robbed the author and all his readers of what should have been a first-rate book.
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