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Review title: Short, and Disappointing
Product review: I've read and thoroughly enjoyed Margolin's seven other novels. This one -- to me, short at 292 pages less the equivalent of about 45 blank pages -- simply has an overcomplicated plot and underdeveloped characters. Sounds like a book forced out to meet a deadline. The fact that it's organized into 54 chapters -- so like 5 pages each -- gives you an idea of how choppy this story is. Plus real lawyers just don't do stuff like this. The one tactic I liked was the mini-novel of an much earlier murder (that more or less gets solved right along with our fresh one) as it diverted one from the story at hand while bringing you back to real time from out in left field. Tighten up the plot, get us better acquainted with the characters, hopefully fewer in number, and add some flesh to the story and we might have something here.
