Bad to the Bone

Bad to the Bone by Tony J. Forder

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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This is an interesting detective novel with a strong plot and an intriguing case. A couple of boys unearth a skeleton and the protagonist and his team must identify the victim and then did through the past to find the murderer. I quite enjoyed it but it was far from perfect. It's not a Whodunit so I don't hold it to Whodunit standards, but I'm not convinced the reader should beat the detective to the answer by the midpoint of the book and then have to wait half a book for the protagonist to catch up. Then when he does catch up, he does so using some minute and subtle details when there's a huge clue just sitting there in front of his nose. Still, I suppose detectives can miss things as well. In any event the author put together a good story. I listened to the audio version but I think print might have worked better. There is a lot of 'character development', i.e. angst, guilt, self-recriminations and so forth the protagonist wades through and if you have the print version in front of you, you can can just skip a few paragraphs or pages and move on to the good stuff. Anyway, I think I'll move on to book two in the series and see how it goes.



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