Buyer Beware

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Summary: Aptly titled
Review: I read this book on the recommendation of the normally reliable Ed Gorman (who praises it to the heavens in his famous BLACK LIZARD ANTHOLOGY OF CRIME FICTION). What could he have been thinking? This is a very bland, not very well written, entirely average P.I. novel. There is a good twist or two, but the big revelation at the climax is poorly developed and not nearly as deep a philosophical comment on modern life as the author imagines. The occasional pungent observation does not save this book from being one of the drearier 188 pages I have struggled through. Skip it.