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Title: A supreme disappointment
Review: Where to start on this disappointing book? This is the first Tapply mystery I've read, and it will definitely be the last. The plot is contrived, the characters are not much better than caricatures, and the dialogue is plodding and predictable. Really, a lightning strike, amnesia, and 18 months in a government hospital was the best the author could come up with? Set in Maine, with both saltwater and freshwater fishing as possible themes, Tapply gives them short shrift, with little description of the outdoors and next to no fishing action. Add to that the objectionable element of the hero's adulterous relationship with a woman whose husband is gravely ill, and the book falls flat on almost every front. Stoney's dog is the only honorable character in the book, unfortunately. I came looking for a trophy rainbow, and it seems that all I have hooked is an old fisherman's boot.
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