Lauren McMurdie
Although, to a degree, crime fiction has become much-of-a-muchness, however, Michael Bennett is nothing like the typical thrice divorced and emotionally cut off male detectives we see all to often or the ballsy almost masculine female detectives who in their way too are emotionally incompetent and can't get their personal lives straight but excel at their crime-fighting job (be it detective, ME, &c.). James Patterson's characters as a general rule are never like that, this is no exception, and in a wonderful way does MB follow suit with his company of Patterson creations, while every step of the way in his still-new life do things his way. Character driven, more than bogging itself down with police procedure or the relevant scientific methods, it is steeped in humanity; it's joys, tears, frustrations and follies and for that reason, along with all other Patterson novels, this is a must read for any lover of fiction.
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