Engrossing storyline; couldn't wait to finish it... yet not wanting the story to end. From me, high praise indeed. Beckett and Tanaka are sooo human...not infallible, but tenacious enough to buck the system in the pursuit of justice. Author Tyler Dilts zoomed to the upper ranks of my fave mystery-crime-thriller list. Had not the real killer become obvious a tad too soon, I would have rated this five stars, for pure entertainment value. Lol, when it comes to whodunits, I'm fussy and hard-core regarding awarding those stars... they gotta be earned.Highly recommend this book, and will be devouring more of his works. Gosh, as far as crime novels go this was incredibly boring. I can't understand on what basis this is rated as high as it is. By about halfway through, nothing of note had happened and at that stage, I guessed that nothing of note was really going to happen in the second half of the book either. No tension was built at... it felt like a meek meander through a whodunnit saga. We never really find out the whole story of Danny and Megan, the side storyline with Jen and her aikido student (Rudy?) is a bit of a fizzler, Danny's alcoholism is left bubbling to the side, there's not a lot of gore, there's definitely no sex... Easy to read, but dull as hell. The title, a reference to Shakespeare's Hamlet, makes the book sound like it's got a lot more depth to it than it actually has. Other than Beth, the first victim, having the entire works of Shakespeare on her bookshelf, there's really no link to it at all. Ground breaking this book certainly is not.
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Another excellent book from Tyler Dilts. Definitely looking forward to reading #3 in the series.
—Bookmonkey
Decent enough crime novel but a bit too obvious as to whodunnit.
—Ratna
Worth reading, but probably wont seek out more by Mr Dilts
—Jenn
