A Once Perfect Place

Rating:
Summary: Series Still Needs Serious Work
Review: Larry Maness obviously knows all the things a good mystery novel needs...he even provides most of them in this novel...but like his first in this series, "Nantucket Revenge," he just can't seem to connect them all into a smooth-flowing, logical, readable sequence of events. And his two main characters, Jake Eaton and Gloria Gorham, are as stiff and unyielding in this book as in the first. Oh, and by the way, I think that Eaton's dog, Watson, is supposed to be a version of Pearl the Wonder Dog in Robert Parker's Spenser novels...guess what...it doesn't work...this dog is as boring as his master!