Harm's Way

Rating:
Summary: Somewhat small
Review: Found this offering a little slow and somewhat hard to follow. I found it slow for a 100 pages then it picked up and dropped me again. I really think that it was somewhat of a confusing story and never really brought together. I will read others as I try never to base my opinions on one book and it seems that his earlier books rated higher.

Rating:
Summary: No way the killer fits in this one.
Review: I enjoy Mr. White but this one just doesn't cut it. Every book requires the suspension of disbelief but this time he asks for too much and then he doesn't deliver the goods. We're to believe that this particular killer could lift a dead body up and dump it into a cement mixer? Or that this killer is strong enough to suspend one of the victims from his feet with a sword? Not to mention that all this fancy and bizarrely sick killing is done by someone that has been otherwise a model citizen up to now? The psychology just doesn't match. Not buying it. I could go on and on about the other implausibilities. The least of which is that this killer had all this time to slip off unnoticed to do all the killing given their role in the story. Come on, Sam would have noticed. I can't believe this one got by an editor.

Rating:
Summary: Ho-Hum
Review: Tried to get interested but I find the character of Alan Gregory just a bore. There are some fine sequences in this book but I felt like I was reading one of those parlor mysteries where the ramblings of the main characters were more important than the mystery itself. When the villian is revealed at the end I found myself not buying it. Maybe because of the lack of real character development or the lack of empathy for Alan Gregory. This is the third Alan Gregory novel by Stephen White that I have read and this time I have asked myself 'is that all there is? I think that this series is worth the effort to read but I warn you not to start with this entry. You may be put off and ignore others from this author which are very good reads. Also be aware that some books of the series shift the main character emphasis from Alan Gregory to Lauren Crowder, his girl firend/wife.