Ron Lesser

Great cover. Terrific author. But, unfortunately, this is not one of Dewey's better novels. For those of us who have enjoyed his Mac series and his Pete Schofield series, this standalone novel is a
disappointment. It reads at a slow, ponderous pace and is at once a pulp tale, a Peyton Place thing about a small town, and a Perry Mason legal tale. But, it's all over the place and neither one thing nor the other.