RARA-AVIS: Re: The Overlook

From: jacquesdebierue ( jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com)
Date: 28 Mar 2008


--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Burridge"
<stephen.burridge@...> wrote:
>
> Obviously I misremembered about the length of "The Lincoln Lawyer".
 Amazon
> says the hardcover is 416 pages.
>
> It did strike me as faster-moving than many of his other books. I
wish I
> could pin down better exactly how it seemed to differ from them,
because it
> struck me as something of a departure, but it has been a while.
>

It's not short by the standards of mystery novels, but it's so beautifully and precisely put together that you're never aware of how many pages have gone by. I've already said, but this book is highly recommendable, even to people who don't normally read mysteries.

Best,

mrt



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