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Title: Absolutely Horrible
Review: I read the 10th Justice by Metzler. It was okay for a debut, so I expected Dead Even to be better. I had also read an article Metzler wrote in Details magazine about his relationship with his wife (high school sweetheart) which was very good.This book is just absolutely horrible. The plot is pathetic, the dialogue is terrible, and the characterization is very weak. He has a total of 11 characters in the entire book and all of them are so shallowly developed that they would be out of their depth in a puddle. His facts about the law and the NY DA's office were obviously written for the layman because they are not true, or glossed over. If you want to know about the DA's office try Grand Jury by Philip Friedman.Dead Even was excruciating to finish. I doubt I'll ever read another novel by Metzler again.
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