The Tin Roof Blowdown
I was very surprised not to like this book. Burke is one of my favorite authors, so I hope he is not running out of gas. Nothing much new in the story lines and switching from first person to omniscient narrator interrupts the flow. It seems to be a mandate in detective fiction that, as the series ages, the protagonist’s home life becomes the central story, rather than the detecting. McBain kept it to a minimum, Parker wallows in it and Mosley actually makes it interesting. I hope Burke comes back with something stronger.
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