A review by ansate
Black Irish by Stephan Talty

4.0

A successful mystery in the sense that I did not figure it out, but all the pieces did fit together nicely. [return][return]The berserker rage scene really loses both my sympathy for the protagonist and believability for the plot. I don't like her that much to begin with. Name that's working to hard to be symbolic, "Harvard" as a fast and easy stereotype, and I had to share with everyone that I do not feel old enough for washed up detectives in novels to be my age. [return][return]It felt over the top - too much going on, too much of her life turned over. If this is meant to be the first book of a series, I have no idea how that level of intensity can be maintained. [return][return]I liked seeing how the mystery came together, but I hope he drops this character and gives us a new mystery with someone he can write a little more believably.