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This is the second book in the series with Chicago private-eye Michael Kelley. Again, I love the attention paid to the Chicago locales. I also loved that the mystery in the book has an angle related to Chicago history, specifically the Great Fire of 1871. But the unfolding of the mystery itself was kind of lame. Harvey has his P.I. narrator refer obliquely to some things he's thinking about and asking people to do in order to keep things "mysterious" to the reader up until the big revelations. T
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The second Michael Kelly mystery; Harvey gives good Chicago, the mysteries have both been complex and compelling, and Kelly's a sympathetic (if sometimes pathetic) hero.
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I enjoy the send-up of my city and Hizzoner, but it's a bit too thin and insubstantial to make for a lasting literary meal.
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Apr 20, 2019
Tammy AZ
marked it as to-read
