A review by jdcorley
Motown by Loren D. Estleman

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

A little more ambitious than Whiskey River, it attempts to be a more sprawling and Dickensian view of one segment of Detroit crime in the sixties. However, it lacks the singular charms of the protagonists of the first Detroit novel, and so you find yourself spinning through the book instead of pinballing through it. Don't get me wrong, it's good, but it lacks the snap of the truly propulsive Estleman.