A review by dmturner
The Big Sheep by Robert Kroese

2.0

The book has a great title and is an homage to noir. It starts off auspiciously with plenty of wisecracks and some send-ups of the Nero Wolfe type of mystery, but I found it hard going after the first few casual deaths that apparently didn't bother anyone. It is theoretically set in the future, but there wasn't much futuristic about it except for a sort of formulaic cloning plot. The end is excruciatingly badly written with people holding guns on one another and explaining the whole situation, and it ends with a cliffhanger. Oh, well.