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Down River by John Hart
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Jul 04, 11

1 of 5 stars
bookshelves: mystery-suspense
Read from June 30 to July 01, 2011

I really enjoyed King of Lies a lot, and was under the impression that Hart gets better with each novel.

I lasted 84 pages before giving up in exasperation. I'll use some spoiler tags even though they occur early and are pretty minor:
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I could not buy into no one giving the guy the benefit of the doubt. So he was acquitted of a crime for which it seemed only circumstantial evidence and his stepmother's word were against him, yet it seems everyone still thinks he got away with murder. Then he's suspected of rape (after a poorly written encounter with the victim) and even after the victim is hugging him in the hospital, they STILL doubt his innocence. It was after they cuffed him at the meth lab farm (when it was obvious he was not the criminal at large here) that I slammed the book shut with an "ARRRRGH!!!"
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Worst book I started this year and by far the biggest disappointment I've had in an author in a long time.

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