You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: Old formula, meet new setting.
Product review: The seediness and depravity of the New Orleans wards so beautifully depicted in the Robicheaux novels does not transplant to rural Montana well, nor without laying bare the formula that underlies most of Burke's books. A host of psychopaths, degenerates and Mafiosos mix with a stage full of psychologically damaged innocents and not so innocents including the trademark flawed ex-lawman and his violence prone pal. Burke's gift for flowery agreeable prose which in past outings has raised this genre fiction to the threshold of literature here fails to camouflage the obvious retrofit that is Dave Robicheaux of New Iberia reborn as Billy Bob Holland in Montana. Two thirds into the story and the work seems to have degenerated into an aimless daisy-chain of one violent confrontation linking to the next act of heartless cruelty, all involving characters who are difficult to care about.
