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A review by a_ab
Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller
3.0
This was a nice installment in the series, but I am starting to see two major issues which have gotten worse in this book and are making me doubt this series as a whole:
1. The police is useless, which is a problem all by itself, but it also casts the detective interested in the heroine in a very unavailable light, and makes even the proposition of her considering him a shadow on her character (his constant use of racial slurs, however self aware and ironic, is not helping his case).
2. The heroine has too much personal and immediate exposure to all sorts of criminal activity, which makes no sense, given her background and current job (which job we haven't seen her perform at all even after 2 full books!). The amount of sordid relationships in her immediate circle is also starting to look wonky.
I get that it's the 70's, but still.
1. The police is useless, which is a problem all by itself, but it also casts the detective interested in the heroine in a very unavailable light, and makes even the proposition of her considering him a shadow on her character (his constant use of racial slurs, however self aware and ironic, is not helping his case).
2. The heroine has too much personal and immediate exposure to all sorts of criminal activity, which makes no sense, given her background and current job (which job we haven't seen her perform at all even after 2 full books!). The amount of sordid relationships in her immediate circle is also starting to look wonky.
I get that it's the 70's, but still.