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Summary: Great mystery book
Review: If it wasn't for Amazon's Quick Picks, I would never have discovered this author and this great mystery story. After checking the book out on my Amazon Quick Pick List I couldn't wait to read it. I am glad I did because I read this book in one day, it was that interesting and so hard to put down. I will be sure and read his previous three mysteries. "The Limits Of Justice" tells the story of Charlotte, daughter of TV and movie star Rod Preston, who wants an unauthorized biography stopped about her father.. Private Investigator Benjamin Justice gets on the case, and then Charlotte is found dead. The story goes on to reveal a network of pedophiles and secrets that are too horrible to imagine. This is a very engaging read and keeps you glued to your seat till the very end. His description of the Southern California region and its history, as well as Mexico, is surely educational and enlightening if you are not too familiar with this area. A book worth exploring!
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Summary: Thanks for the Mystery Amazon!
Review: If it wasn't for Amazon's Quick Picks, I would never have discovered this author and this great mystery story. After checking the book out on my Amazon Quick Pick List I couldn't wait to read it. I am glad I did because I read this book in one day, it was that interesting and so hard to put down. I will be sure and read his previous three mysteries. "The Limits Of Justice" tells the story of Charlotte, daughter of TV and movie star Rod Preston, who wants an unauthorized biography stopped about her father.. Private Investigator Benjamin Justice gets on the case, and then Charlotte is found dead. The story goes on to reveal a network of pedophiles and secrets that are too horrible to imagine. This is a very engaging read and keeps you glued to your seat till the very end. His description of the Southern California region and its history, as well as Mexico, is surely educational and enlightening if you are not too familiar with this area. A book worth exploring!
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Summary: Justice gets better each time out
Review: In "The Limits of Justice" John Morgan Wilson returns with Benjamin Justice, a tough, sexy, mid 40's, gay man who was once a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. When the piece he had written was said to be fabricated he was stripped of the honor, and much of his pride and dignity. Now after a six month drinking binge, and a recent diagnosis of HIV, he finds himself in the potentially lucrative position of working for a woman named Charlotte Preston. Her father Rod was a handsome matinee idol back in the forties, and now a scathing posthumous tell all has just been released claiming there were plenty of skeletons in his closet. Charlotte wants Benjamin to investigate the writer. To concoct a counter tell all book about this man she feels has slandered her father's name. No sooner has she signed a check to Justice for commencement of services, he finds her dead. Suddenly his investigation into the death of Charlotte and the life of her father begin to reveal a trail of carefully guarded secrets that are only too horrible to imagine. John Morgan Wilson manages to really hit his stride with this novel. The previous three were almost relentlessly dark in their portrayal of the seedier underbelly of Los Angeles. Here, although Justice is faced with some heavy odds in his own life, he attempts to face the demons both internal and external with renewed vigor and strength.It's also been interesting to watch how the characters adapt and change in their relationships with one another, specifically between Justice and his reporter friend Alexandra Templeton On a side note, one of the really nice things about reading the four Justice books is I've learned more about Southern California's topography and the region's history by his in depth and enlightening descriptions of the surrounding areas.
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Summary: Justice gets better each time out
Review: In "The Limits of Justice" John Morgan Wilson returns with Benjamin Justice, a tough, sexy, mid 40's, gay man who was once a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. When the piece he had written was said to be fabricated he was stripped of the honor, and much of his pride and dignity. Now after a six month drinking binge, and a recent diagnosis of HIV, he finds himself in the potentially lucrative position of working for a woman named Charlotte Preston. Her father Rod was a handsome matinee idol back in the forties, and now a scathing posthumous tell all has just been released claiming there were plenty of skeletons in his closet. Charlotte wants Benjamin to investigate the writer. To concoct a counter tell all book about this man she feels has slandered her father's name. No sooner has she signed a check to Justice for commencement of services, he finds her dead. Suddenly his investigation into the death of Charlotte and the life of her father begin to reveal a trail of carefully guarded secrets that are only too horrible to imagine. John Morgan Wilson manages to really hit his stride with this novel. The previous three were almost relentlessly dark in their portrayal of the seedier underbelly of Los Angeles. Here, although Justice is faced with some heavy odds in his own life, he attempts to face the demons both internal and external with renewed vigor and strength.It's also been interesting to watch how the characters adapt and change in their relationships with one another, specifically between Justice and his reporter friend Alexandra Templeton On a side note, one of the really nice things about reading the four Justice books is I've learned more about Southern California's topography and the region's history by his in depth and enlightening descriptions of the surrounding areas.
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Summary: Do Children Always Know Their Parents?
Review: John Morgan Wilson's latest book is an engaging mystery surrounding a famous actor who's daughter wants an unauthorized biography stopped. She contracts with Private Investigator Benjamin Justice to see what he can do on the biography. Then she turns up dead. Justice, recovering from a bad spell of depression following an HIV+ diagnosis isn't overly excited about the case. When his client, Charlotte Preston turns up dead, he's about to give it up. But he feels an obligation. Justice begins to investigate and the dad's real biography -- none too pretty -- begins to come to the surface. In addition, despite the fact that the man is dead, his associates are very much active and involved in some of the most incomprehensible crimes involving children that one can imagine. Justice seeks justice -- and triumphs. A well written story that carefully builds in its suspense. A highly engaging read.
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Summary: Do Children Always Know Their Parents?
Review: John Morgan Wilson's latest book is an engaging mystery surrounding a famous actor who's daughter wants an unauthorized biography stopped. She contracts with Private Investigator Benjamin Justice to see what he can do on the biography. Then she turns up dead. Justice, recovering from a bad spell of depression following an HIV+ diagnosis isn't overly excited about the case. When his client, Charlotte Preston turns up dead, he's about to give it up. But he feels an obligation. Justice begins to investigate and the dad's real biography -- none too pretty -- begins to come to the surface. In addition, despite the fact that the man is dead, his associates are very much active and involved in some of the most incomprehensible crimes involving children that one can imagine. Justice seeks justice -- and triumphs. A well written story that carefully builds in its suspense. A highly engaging read.
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Summary: Excellent until the end
Review: Wilson continues his award-winning style and pacing, as well as the intense rendering of Ben Justice's climb from his pit of self-destruction. The mystery plot begins strong, yet it plummets to a disappointing cliché ending. Justice is hired to write a book refuting claims that a dead Hollywood star was a pederast. He finds the star's daughter dead and seeks her killer. Along the way he stumbles into a boy trade reaching into the highest levels of Los Angeles's social structure. The problem I had with the plot was the actual culprits and their reasons for doing bad things. It was just such a let-down from what I was expecting from Wilson's level of excellence. I am happy with the characterization of Justice, most especially his achievements on the road to recovery. I hope the next in the series overcomes this stumble.
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