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Review title: full of holes.
Product review: I thought this had a promising premise--a man from an auction house hired to sell the estate of a dead millionaire discovers "snuff" pictures--sounded interesting, albeit familiar to moviegoers who saw "8 mm". And the main character, the auctioneer, was unusual for this kind of novel: a middle-aged gay guy who prowls public parks.But the book was stronger on incident and character than it was on real plot and the twist at the end (I won't reveal it), was full of holes: think about it for a minute and it completely falls apart. And, in the end, the book relied on thematics in order to wrap up, in an unsatisfying way, what should have been wrapped up with good old fashioned storytelling.One final caveat: the book is set mainly in Scotland and the brogue sometimes appeared, at least to this American, to take the form of typos. It was occasionally distracting.
