Customer Reviews

The Heart of Justice

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I just recently discovered Wm. Coughlin by reading "The Judgement". I loved it and started searching for others. I read Heart of Justice after reading 5 others and cannot believe this was written by the same aurhor as the others. It is far inferior and I'm sure not written by a man (not saying a man could do better) as the way characters are depicted implies to me a woman is writing the prose.

This one was published after the author died over one or two years. It's a totally bad story and bad writing. Didn't look like a genuine work of Coughlin's

This book could not possibly have been written by William Coughlin!! The writing style is completely different...and greatly inferior to his. The plot is slow and ponderous, and the dialogue is dull and amateurish compared to his other books. It's a shame that his name has been attached to a book that is so poorly written.

I must have missed something, considering the amount of praise heaped on the author on the dust jacket, I thought I was about to read War and Peace. There was nothing new here, and the story line moved around like a heart monitor display - no consistent track - grabs something here, something there. This really is a very disappointing book.

After just a few pages I felt 100% certain that William Coughlin did not write this dreadful book. Read any of his Charley Sloan novels (especially "Shadow of a Doubt") and you'll see what I mean.

I got hooked on Coughlin's writing after stumbling across a more recent book of his. Now I'm reading his older works, and I can see how they've improved with time. While not spellbinding, this was still a decent story. There was little or no suspence, if that's what you're looking for, and the ending was rather abrupt and anticlimactic. Not a bad read, though.

Brousing on Amazon I came across Coughlin's Charly Sloan novels and feel in love with all of them. I couldn't figure out why there weren't more until I Googled the author and found out he passed away in 2004. I felt the same way after Lawrence Sanders passed, another one of my favorite writers who create wonderfully interestingly flawed characters.