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Bad Blood (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries) |
Author: Linda Fairstein
Published: 2007-12-26 |
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 Hard to visualize, cluttered with unimportant details
Let me begin with this book's strengths:
* the information about the underground tunnels and the Sandhogs is interesting, although I suspect Fairstein has exaggerated the extent to which they are an intermarried, insular subculture.
* for most of the book, there is just enough of an intriguing plotline to keep you wondering what's going to happen next. Plot is definitely Fairstein's strength in this entire series.
* Mike is sliiiiightly less extremely annoying here than in some of the earlier novels in the series.
And now the weaknesses:
* Having just finished the book, what's foremost in my mind is how frustrating it is to try to visualize/imagine the scenes that Fairstein is describing. Perhaps not all readers do this, or even care, but when I'm reading I like to to imagine the scene in my mind. In the final scene (especially), the physical layout of the scene is very complicated and important to the story, yet it is impossible to visualize from the scattered, vague descriptions we get. I don't want to say more and give anything away.
* Things were not well tied-up at the end. I'm still not sure who did what, why, or why now.
* Fairstein resorts to the Batman technique of explaining many of the details in the last chapter by having the good guy and the bad guy perform a protracted Q&A. The whole "but before I kill you, I want to tell you what I did and why" silliness.
* The requisite, tiresome episode at Martha's Vineyard with bad dialogue and a oh-so-fabulous love interest who serves no purpose here but as a set-up for a future novel.
* Just eat a freaking cookie already, Alex.
 One of her best
A very good well-rounded book. Can't wait for the next 1, or 5 or 6.
Bad Blood
Arrived on time and in excellent condition. Have not read the book yet, but have read many other "Alexandra Cooper" books by Linda Fairstein and have enjoyed them very much.
Disappointing
I have enjoyed the other stories by the author (Entombed in particular) but thought this one was really not very good. I wondered if the author was just trying to meet a deadline as opposed to writing a story she wanted to tell. :-(
 This series keeps going strong!
There's no substiute for first-hand knowledge of one's subject, and Linda Fairstein is no exception. Her Alexandra Cooper mysteries are among my favorite, due in no small part to her former work as the chief of the Sex Crimes Unit for the Manhattan DA's office. Bad Blood is the ninth in the series, and the author's doing an amazing job of keeping the character interesting, and the plots pleasingly twisted. The jumping-off point for this novel is the revelation of a key witness's affair with the defendant in a murder trial, which paints the prosecution's case into a corner. The plot then literally explodes, uncovering secrets that I won't spoil here. This reminded me of another author with firsthand knowledge: Patricia Gussin, an MD with a background in family medicine and medical research. Her new book, Twisted Justice, is on par with Fairstein's work. Enjoy both!
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