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dunnadam's review against another edition
4.0
Another great book in the series, it hits you hard in the beginning. There's a dead body in the trunk! And then has you flipping pages quickly until the end.
It seems to be standard in these books, at least in 1, 2 and now 3, that there will be too many sub-characters and the wrap-up won't make a lot of sense. After reading book 2 I watched the movie version and they cleared that up, I expect the same will happen here when I watch this movie.
An extra bonus was reading this in the summer humidity. The book is set in a long cold winter and the many descriptions of freezing cold were nice for me.
Still enjoying the series, immediately started the next one.
It seems to be standard in these books, at least in 1, 2 and now 3, that there will be too many sub-characters and the wrap-up won't make a lot of sense. After reading book 2 I watched the movie version and they cleared that up, I expect the same will happen here when I watch this movie.
An extra bonus was reading this in the summer humidity. The book is set in a long cold winter and the many descriptions of freezing cold were nice for me.
Still enjoying the series, immediately started the next one.
bookcraft's review against another edition
3.0
The new MLR Press editions, at least the ebook versions, have a disappointing number of typographical problems, both minor and major.
writerlibrarian's review
3.0
I'm going thru the series rapidly. Everybody's looking for the money, Jack Lenihan, supposedly wanted to give to the political candidate that would go along his view of change. 2 millions dollars is a lot of money to travel in suitcases. When Lenihan is found murdered in Donald Strachey's car, the chase for the killer, the money and where the money came from starts. Fun, a little slow to get going with the plot but it does pay off in the ends. Third book in the series.
joreads7's review against another edition
3.0
I was watching part of this movie on Logo the other night, and I found the rest of it on Netflix, which I have yet to finish, so when I saw the book was only $5 on Kindle I thought I'd try it (not that I need to explain why I read a book but I already typed this out so whatever). My main complaint was the cheap ebook, huge sections were in italics for no reason, and there were really basic spelling errors from the transition, which was very annoying. Overall, it was a decent story, the atmosphere of corruption in Albany and attitudes of a gay man at the height of the AIDS crisis were more compelling than the mystery, which was fine but not particularly suspenseful. I would read more by this author, the writing is good enough to make these fun summer mysteries. Though this book has been saddled with a horrible erotica cover that in no way expresses the tone of the book, which includes some interesting musing on the role of the private citizen in the corrupt political machine, to overstate the case a little bit, but not a lot.
celli's review
3.0
Fun beginning, shaky ending. Otherwise a solid outing for Strachey and co., and I look forward to seeing how they adapt it for the next movie (especially that beginning).
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