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Against the Law

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Michael C Eberhardt is truly better than Grisham. This story is a must read and will keep you on the edge of your seat! The characters are great and truly come to life in this thriller set in Hawaii.

I enjoyed Eberhardt's "Body of a Crime", so I was eager to read "Against the Law". While the plot moved along at a good pace for the most part, and the description of the Hawaiian landscape and culture was interesting, I found the characters to be rather flat and the outcome quite predictable. The author telegraphed the clues so much that, apart from a couple of minor surprises, I could figure out what was happening well in advance of the characters. Still, the book did keep me moderately entertained for a few hours.

Eberhardt remains on the line of Martini and Grisham. Good law-novel, with suspense. You will change the suspect with each turn of the page. Keeps you longing for beautiful Hawai'i, although you have finished the book. Carefully written, between the lines it shows the present dichotomy of the so-called "progress" and the respect for the land of the ancestors, as well as the usual dirt behind the bright of power and politics. As a PA himself, Eberhardt seems to know quite well how much can justice twist without apparently breaking. It makes you wonder how many cases as this fiction-one do really exist, where many innocent people suffer, die, are arrested or convicted to cover-up some corrupted politician. It also takes you to the matter of justice-by-one's hand: is it, although not right, forgivable to make justice when law does not provide for it? Bet it happens more often than you think it does..