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Badger Games: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery (Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mysteries)

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The reviewer below missed a lot-- the Fang Mulheisen books are one long story about a detective and the colorful people he works with and chases down. Don't read this one first: read and savor the first 8 books in the series. They are: The Die Hard, The Blind Pig, Grootka, Hit on the House, Dead Man, Dead Folks, Man With an Axe, and La Donna Detroit. (And his new Fang novel, No Man's Dog, is #10.) These are GREAT novels, full of perceptive writing and compelling characters. Get to know them and this book will enchant you. Don't, and you'll be like the reviewer below, clueless.

This is the first book I've read by Jon Jackson. I think there are other books with the same protagonists, and maybe if I'd read those first I would have liked this book better. I did not find the protagonists interesting at all. In fact, I found the villain--even though I think the author tried very hard to make him unlikeable--to be a more interesting and even occasionally compelling character. The plot had some trouble too...either I wasn't reading carefully enough, or there were some major unanswered questions about the motives of several characters. Last of all the author tended to use various names to refer to the same character (e.g. sometimes calling a person by his last name, sometimes his first, sometimes a title) and I thought this was a bit confusing since there are a lot of characters involved in the story.

To summarize...this book was entertaining enough to finish, but mostly I was glad when it ended so I could start another book.