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Title: First and last book I'll ever read by this author
Review: I would classify this as the most disappointing book I've read in this category, and my first with this author. It fell short in all categories. It offered little as a police procedural, very little character development, lightweight treatment of the story as a whole. There is even the story of 2 police officers dating that had no relevance at all to the story and didn't even have the decency to come to any reasonable conclusion as a side story. Was it accidentally inserted from another story? It bumbled along to the point near the end where I wondered why I wasted my time, when suddenly the victim is brutally raped and then murdered. The senseless violence was such a jarring incongruity to the rest of the story that it made me truly angry. I look at the credits and past books and would have expected that this author was capable of a great deal more. It's no wonder he doesn't publish it under his real name.
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