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Review title: You can fool everybody...Once
Product review: Those reviewers who compared Freeman to Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly must not have read either of those authors. Freeman's plot is convoluted (and illogical), his characters (mostly cliches and caricatures) have problems rather than depth, and his descriptions are too much and too hackneyed. Both his sex scene and his courtroom scene are unbelieveable at best (and hilarious at worst), and he tells everything but shows almost nothing. You can even tell which characters he likes and dislikes: he gives the few that he likes good dialogue--WHEN they're with other characters he likes. Otherwise, most of the dialogue can be cut. There's no reason to have the revelation "three years later," either. The cops who messed up the investigation (i.e., the protagonists) come across as borderline incompetents.
