Just finished this one. Guess it won an Edgar. It wasn't bad.
It had an interesting plot and the prose was smooth and
compelling, but there was something about it that didn't
quite click. A quick stab, for one thing, would be that
Hamilton never really successfully tapped the enormous
potential of tying the weather and the lake in with the mood
of the story.
Hell, I'm being picky. It was a good book. The play between
the police chief and Alex was gold. I never got a good fix on
the Sylvia character. Or her mother. Or the lawyer.
I dropped by Barnes and Nobles last night and just had to buy
GOD IS A BULLET after all the juicy talk about it. So far I
like it. Sharp little philosophical one-liners that cut right
to the bone, but don't necessarily sit inside the
ubiquitously cynical normal world attitude I see in
hardboiled.
miker
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