Title: The most ridiculous crime novel I have ever read!
Product review: I read a lot of crime and mystery novels. As I turned page after page, I was sure the story had to get better, but I was wrong!! How in the world did this win the Edgar Allan Poe Award??? The author asks me to believe that, outsider cop or not, Skip would act so irrepsonsibly when investigating a murder -- failure to immediately report crucial evidence, failure to report an assault that could provide leads to the murderer, cleaning up potential evidence, and more -- not to mention wasting valuable time with her personal angst, pettiness, and involvements. Way too many characters and the ending no surprise. I love female protagonists, but she is an embarrassment, primarily the poor choices she makes. In order to make it through the book, I suspended disbelief and skimmed as much as I could to get to the very predictable ending. I'm not sure I'm willing to give the author another chance, award-winning(????) or not!!
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