Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 8/2/2008 + 1032 more book reviews

I've enjoyed the last four Cliff Janeway books by Dunning, but perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood when I read this one. Janeway is hired by the estate of a very rich man to investigate missing books from the library of the man's wife, also deceased. While he's deciding whether he wants to work for these very unpleasant people, he meets the one good offspring and gets drawn into whether or not the woman was actually murdered. The locales were interesting: he spends quite a lot of time at a ranch and also working at a racetrack, but wow this book is slow. Talk talk talk, all the same questions, every answer has to be dragged out of the character over ten or more pages while they dither and ditz and evade. It seemed like it went on interminably. Finally when he gets close to solving the mystery, we head off into left field for the answer. The book has some good moments, and what looks like an interesting bit of character development for Janeway, but I would have appreciated about 100 fewer pages.

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