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Review title: In lovely Puget Sound... a spa vacation for your conscience
Product review: I was taken in by the hype and bought this book. Don't do it. The writing is OK and the whodunit is fair to good, but overall this book is a dog. The characters are all wooden stereotypes: the crusty reporter with a painful past; the prim German-American housewife who's a secret sex fiend; the heroic, hardworking Japanese-Americans. This would be OK as camp, but the book takes itself very seriously. The treatment of interracial love is especially hamfisted. The love scenes were so embarrassingly voyeuristic I could hardly get through them, and I'm not usually squeamish.So save your money, unless you are a suburban matron who still doesn't know about the tragedy of Japanese internment during WWII. In that case, you will get to wallow pleasantly in guilt (keep your mind on the scenery!) and have it all washed away in the end, in less than 500 pages.
