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Summary: These Waters Certainly are Troubled
Review: "Troubled Waters" is one of the the best mysteries I've read this year. Wheat's compelling narrative shifts in time between the late '60s, early '80s and mid-'90s, charting the lives of a disparate group of idealistic radicals from youth to adulthood, and makes canny use of their collective 30-odd-year-old emotional baggage.
At first, the time shifts drove impatient me crazy, but it wasn't long before I was thumbing back every few chapters for clues. Believe me, it doesn't help!
Wheat's five previous books in the Cass Jameson series foreshadow so many events here, I sense that this book has been percolating in her head all along. Many mystery writers don't bother to give their characters a past that is relevant in future plots. (I haven't read her books in chronological order, which perhaps frees me from reader expectations.)
I was blown away by its climactic ending, and I'm not easily fooled! (Certain people refuse to sit next to me in movies!) Kudos to Carolyn Wheat for her best writing yet! I'm chomping at the bit for her next book but, unfortunately for us readers, her books are published years apart.
P.S. I advise beginning this book in the morning. I stayed up until 4 a.m. last night to finish the last chapters.
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Summary: WONDERFUL book, part of a PHENOMENAL series
Review: Although I have read -- and enjoyed -- virtually every book in every series by the most famous female mystery writers, Carolyn Wheat unequivocally remains my favorite. This series is about a Legal Aid attorney named Cass Jameson. As such, it introduces fascinating glimpses into seldom-seen areas of the legal system -- along with providing excellent mysteries. This is one series I buy in hardcover as soon as each book is published. The books are all very well-written, fast-moving, and entertaining. I cannot sufficiently recommend them. IMHO, this is the best mystery series available.
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Summary: WONDERFUL book, part of a PHENOMENAL series
Review: I eagerly await each of Carolyn Wheat's mysteries. Troubled Waters is an excellent, well plotted mystery. The character development is strong and the story line demands the reader's full attention. I have read each of her previous Cass Jameson mysteries and thoroughly enjoyed each of them. This one reaches new heights of excellence with its amazingly plotted and executed story line. My one suggestion to the author is that she utilize a medical advisor to check medical procedures and equipment. One can not speak while on a respirator and when visiting a patient in ICU with a head injury there would be no need to gown. Other than those minor errors, I thought this book was her best yet. I eagerly await the next offering in this wonderful series.
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Summary: An excellent, tightly plotted mystery
Review: I eagerly await each of Carolyn Wheat's mysteries. Troubled Waters is an excellent, well plotted mystery. The character development is strong and the story line demands the reader's full attention. I have read each of her previous Cass Jameson mysteries and thoroughly enjoyed each of them. This one reaches new heights of excellence with its amazingly plotted and executed story line. My one suggestion to the author is that she utilize a medical advisor to check medical procedures and equipment. One can not speak while on a respirator and when visiting a patient in ICU with a head injury there would be no need to gown. Other than those minor errors, I thought this book was her best yet. I eagerly await the next offering in this wonderful series.
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Summary: These Waters Certainly are Troubled
Review: This is an absolutely dreadful book: completely disorganized, with not much of a story to it, and an ending that doesn't make sense.
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