A Feast of Carrion: A Novel of Crime

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Summary: Real people with real flaws and vices
Review: This is a challenging book to read. The vocabulary sometimes requires a dictionary. Some, but very little, is quite graphic and appropriately graphic--nothing gratuitous. The author takes the world as it is: with incompetent cops, often caring only for promotion and sexual comforts; intelligent professors and doctors doing bad things, unalloyed bad things. The story moves along at a steady pace. This can be read like a Patricia C. forensic book, but would make little sense. This first novel educated me, thrilled me, entertained me, but most of all immersed me in the grease and grime of life and made me look unflinchingly at some truths about the human condition, which many myster readers would like to ignore. Not since I read Connelly's The Poet have I been so overwhelmed by mystery/suspense story. Essential reading.