Customer Reviews

The Murderers

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This book reveals a few things about what went on with Rizzo's Gang

WEB Griffin has done it again. His characters have continued to grow and interest the readers. I definitely recommend this if you are a fan of any of his series of novels. If you like the Men in Blue series, check out the Brotherhood of War and the Corps.

I am a big fan of WEB Griffin and this series; however, part of his style is the use of police reports images to advance the story. This is fine in the hardback and paperback formats, but doesn't work on Kindle 2. Even with the zoom feature, the report images are too small to read (the body of the report is just too small). It might work with the new larger format kindle.

"The Murderers" doesn't read well as a standalone, only as a part of the "Men in Blue" series, where it develops the series characters in context of previous books in the series.

In addition, there is a serious problem with the Kindle edition: important - if not vital - to understanding the plot are graphic reproductions of a dozen or so police department incident, interview and forensic report forms, and these are all unreadable on the Kindle.

Apparently this is another case of publishers mindlessly converting books for the Kindle without paying any attention to whether the content is all actually accessible to the buyer. This despite the fact that there are formats for the Kindle that can solve many of the problems of displaying graphic content, including the ability to "zoom" in on graphics. (A number of amazon.com blogs have the same problem.)

So don't buy the Kindle edition, get the paperback.

I have never read a worse book than The Murderers. The back tells of "4 seemingly unconnected murders" and that's what it delivers. Unconnected, diluted, boring, crappy dialogue. I wasted a lot of time reading this book. I advise you all not to do the same. Never in my life has a book gone so quickly from my hand to the waste basket than did the epic novel The Murderers. Que rollo.

In short, what looked like a detective novel with who dunnits and good guys and bad guys, it is not.

I never fully got an idea of who was who in here. And when I did Griffin kept adding more and more people to the story rather than just using those we already met.

The bottom line is that the murder is none of the people you would suspect, BUT is introduced in almost the last chapter and is out of the blue introduced. In short, I wasted a lot of time reading this book and would like to tell you that you should avoid this.

Read the TWO GERORGES instead.

Purchased it for a friend from Philadelphia because they said this was one of the best books written about the Mafia in Philadelphia.

I have all of WEB Griffins books and rate him along with Wilbur Smith as my all time favorite author. His sagas span several different action themes, but they are all either military, police or intelligence services. The author has residence both in Texas and Argentina and has spent a great deal of time with our military so he uses his familiarity with these settings and people to cast a very nice spell in his work. My wife also enjoys the books so I would say they are suitable for all readers.

I have not as yet consumed the content of the book but I will write a review as soon as I have. To-date I would rate it 5 stars for the timeliness and condition of its arrival.

John Coleman

Typical WEB Griffin Book - A great read. I have been going back and ordering the entire series so I can read them in the order that they were published as the "story lines" will make more sense... but it is not necessary however.

Enjoy, I did...