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Old City Hall (Greene and Kennicott #1)

Robert Rotenberg

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First of all I would like to thank Simon & Schuster Canada and Mr. Rotenberg for sending me this copy to review!

I began reading Mr. Rotenberg's Stray Bullets which was won as a Goodread's First-reads and it captured my attention much like Old City Hall. Once again Mr. Rotenberg captures the spirit of Toronto as well as the Canadian justice system in this suspenseful thriller novel. One thing that I love is Rotenberg's devotion to representing the population of Toronto and Canada as it is a mult First of all I would like to thank Simon & Schuster Canada and Mr. Rotenberg for sending me this copy to review!

I began reading Mr. Rotenberg's Stray Bullets which was won as a Goodread's First-reads and it captured my attention much like Old City Hall. Once again Mr. Rotenberg captures the spirit of Toronto as well as the Canadian justice system in this suspenseful thriller novel. One thing that I love is Rotenberg's devotion to representing the population of Toronto and Canada as it is a multicultural cooking pot. The diversity and backgrounds of characters range to every extreme which makes them just that much more believable. The story was a good one with quite a few "Ah-ha!" or "I didn't see that one coming." type moments though most of these were left to the end as is expected. The story didn't quite flow the same as his latest novel but perhaps this is purely just writing experience coming into play. I found that the way many chapters ended were incomplete, obviously they were meant to be cliffhangers but the execution was poor. It always seemed that as one of the characters whether it be Crown, detectives, defense lawyers or whomever else, everyone seem to be coming to these grand conclusions then running out of the scene with little to no explanation to the reader what exactly the conclusion was then leaving you guessing for many chapters. There wasn't overly much of "street level" criminal type dialogue or action in this novel which I really enjoyed in his other works, more court and lawyer drama this time around. This seems novel seems just a bit more "John Grisham-ey" but still very entertaining. If you haven't read Rotenberg yet I'd HIGHLY suggest you give him a shot, especially if you are Canadian! **SPOILER** If I haven't sold you yet on him, THE LEAFS WIN THE CUP! Nice touch but sadly I am reminded this is fiction.

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Thanks once again to Simon & Shuster as well as Mr. Rotenberg! I have The Guilty Plea (#2) on my desk and ready to go. ...more

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