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bibliobabe94's review against another edition
3.0
This is the first of the series I have read, and now I need to go back and read the others. Dark, but also some humor, a very interesting premise.
pdsak's review against another edition
3.0
Enjoyed it. Apparently, according to other reviews, you need to read the other ones in the series to really enjoy it. Not sure I’ll get there. It was funny at the start, serious in the middle and somber in the end.
vkemp's review
4.0
It's been 17 YEARS since the last Cecil Younger book; John Straley, how I have missed you. Cecil is back in action as a criminal defense investigator. He is asked by a client to go to her apartment to retrieve evidence that will help free her, but when he gets there, Cecil finds more than he bargained for: $50,000 in cash; an illegal poker game; corrupt police being blackmailed by an Alt-Right crime lord; as well as the makings of an enormous criminal conspiracy. But when his daughter is kidnapped and the crime lord tries to suborn Cecil into murder, things really get out of hand. Cecil manages to violate almost all the rules in his boss' secret book on how to survive the justice system, Baby's First Felony that walks a client through the steps of a police interrogation, but Cecil is ready to burn down Sitka to find his daughter and get her home safely.
beasley's review
2.0
This was not the deep, satisfying, occasionally profound read that earlier books in the series were. The book has a cartoon-like quality and then turns into an actual cartoon with the inclusion of "Baby's First Felony," an advice manual for criminals, already quoted liberally throughout the story, and presented in its entirety in comic book form. Given that it's been almost 20 years since we last heard from Cecil Younger, I wanted more than this book gave.
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