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Title: This is all it takes to be a star crime fiction author?
Review: Sorry, but I found the writing uninspired, with too many awkward similes ("An erratic breeze, as moist as the inside of an ice chest, rattled among the tree branches." I kid you not.) The chronology was a straight linear progression from the first page to the last--nothing as challenging as, say, a flashback.I'm usually terrible about figuring out whodunit, but with this one I was a good 50 pages ahead of the protagonist. By that personal standard, not a great story.I like crime novels but don't read many; this one was definitely no standout IMO.
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