Title: Talky and violent
Product review: THE BITE starts violently, ends violently, and has lots of violence in between. It's a cold, tough-talking book, with the f-word the first choice for all parts of speech. It's so talky, in fact, that it's hard to consider it a real thriller-more a mystery with a high body count. I was drawn to read THE BITE because of its setting, the suburban Towson-Cockeysville area north of Baltimore with which I thought I was familiar. But I didn't find much that was recognizable, or compelling. The book flap identifies "Michael Crow" as a pseudonym for "a prize-winning, critically acclaimed literary novelist whose works have been translated and published in nine languages." Maybe he was too embarrassed to use his real name for this one.
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