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Dirty Sweet: A Mystery (The Toronto Series)

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Dirty Sweet was a great first effort at crime fiction. It was nice to read something set in a different setting (Toronto). I'm looking forward to his next book.

Another fine offering from John "No Scruples" McFetridge. Heck, no, these folks have no scruples. Well, most of them don't. They don't sit back, hesitate, consider what their troubled conscience tells them. They act. Bam. It's fast. It's furious. Yeah, these are bad folks. If you're sitting on your deck, looking over your manicured backyard, and waiting for Shane ("Shane. Shane. Come back!") to come back and put on his white hat and save you from the baddies, well, have another drink, pal. That ain't this kind of book. They're all wearing black hats and shooting people where they sleep. This is full-on action, one thing falling into another until the momentum of crime is inescapable. If you like your crime fiction full of crimes and great fiction, you'll love this one.

I made it to page 200 with this poorly written mystery. The characters are so stereotypical yet boring, characters that you wish would all be killed off. There is NOT one person in the whole bunch who has any scruples, so I found that I was not interested in any of them. There are long narrative passages between Roxanne the blackmailer and the porno king that are more like a rock and roll narrative then a mystery novel. There were dull with dialogue that would put you to sleep. The author keeps introducing characters, and the whole thing is a jumbled mess. Don't waste your time on this garbage