Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear

If I was an attorney and I found out my client lied to me, I would dump her (or his) ass immediately. Sorry, dear friends. For a minute I forgot this is a book of fiction as stated on the cover; and I'm not an attorney. But that character, the main character, obviously I didn't like her much. She ju......more

"Disjointed" is the first word that this book evokes for me. Story lines that never intersect, unless you count an "oh, by the way, where's so-and-so," the telegraphed ending (I was right about whodunit the first time I met the characters, in spite of numerous limp attempts to point elsewhere), and......more

3,5/5. Διαβάζεται γρήγορα και με ενδιαφέρον, χωρίς να ξεχωρίζει. Ωραίος ήρωας ο Matthew Hope, αν και μάλλον δεν υπάρχουν άλλα βιβλία της σειράς στα ελληνικά.......more

Ed McBain is a writing god! Every book he has written, I have enjoyed, especially the quirks, the slight wackiness, the twists and turns. And this one — while not my favorite of his series — is no different. Matthew Hope is a lawyer in Florida and the cases he gets, well lets just say, they never ar......more

For all the big name critics who sang praises for this next-to-last book in the Matthew Hope series, I was sadly disappointed. My thought was that in order to keep the action moving, Attorney Hope's investigator Warren had to run a side story line in which his assistant, Toots, fell off the wagon an......more