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Title: Not all readers like it, though
Review: This book was recommended to me at a bookstore that specializes in mysteries, and I have a hard time understanding why. The characters are largely stereotypes, and the result reads more like a Hollywood treatment of a mystery than a novel. The background for the plot centers on bail bonds, but provides little detail beyond what one could glean from watching a good movie like "Midnight Run." I notice that many of the (extemely positive!) reviews here are written by people who begin by saying "I don't like mysteries, but. . . " Well, I can see where that might be the case, and respect their opinions (with the one exception that I can't understand the positive comments on the "romance" in the book because it is so preoccupied with sexual violence). But as someone who loves this genre, this book struck me as an unsuccessful attempt at marrying Robert B. Parker and Sue Grafton.
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