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Review title: Nominated for an Edgar . . . but why?
Product review: The middle third of this book is pretty good. That's the part that is a police procedural even though the police follow no procedures I've ever heard of. The first third, the courtroom drama is probably good if you care for legal mysteries. The last third, where the author descends into soft porn, and realism going totally out the window, is just to be endured. All this sprinkled with cliches (jeans so tight you need a knife to cut them off?) and thrown into a blender to make the storyline as convoluted as possible.There is talent here. With a stronger editor and a decision on what genre he's writing, Mr. Freeman has the ability to write a novel that is qualified to be nominated for an Edgar. But this wasn't it.
