Winter's Gold

Rating:
Summary: This 'thriller' had a mushy plot and seemed contrived.
Review: WINTER"S GOLD is my first Heffernan effort, and I would like to read TARNISHED BLUE To see what he is capable of. This book didn't impress or hold my interest.

WINTER"S GOLD" started with the interesting premise of a handicapped, former Olympic female athlete being found in a bathtub as an apparent suicide. There was no suspense whatsoever before we were led into what quickly became a 'murder' scene. We were given too much information about the detecting Devlin wanted his people to do. Why so much f...ing language? The word can be effective when not overused. The police surely can't talk that way in every conversation, but if they do I don't want to read every bleeping word.

I managed to finish the book, but lost interest in who actually did the murder because the author didn't make me care that much about his characters nor his protagonist.

Lately many authors insert gay and/or lesbian characters which is certainly appropriate. The problem I find with that, as in WINTER'S GOLD, is that the character is not handled very well. Levy, the lesbian cop, was a good idea in this book due to the tastes of Winter himself, who used lesbians to arouse himself, but I didn't get a good feeling what Levy was about other than her snappy comebacks at Boom Boom, the stereotyped racist, ethic slurring and homophobic cop.

Enjoyed the tactics used in the morgue on the germophobic killer to force him to reveal information. However, I found it unbelievable that as busy as medical examiners and their staffs are, they would take the time to set up this charade for one cop.

The Agatha Christie twist at the end was a good idea, but...again, I was just glad to finish the book and even that finish was an anticlimax for me.

Rating:
Summary: This 'thriller' had a mushy plot and seemed contrived.
Review: WINTER"S GOLD is my first Heffernan effort, and I would like to read TARNISHED BLUE To see what he is capable of. This book didn't impress or hold my interest.

WINTER"S GOLD" started with the interesting premise of a handicapped, former Olympic female athlete being found in a bathtub as an apparent suicide. There was no suspense whatsoever before we were led into what quickly became a 'murder' scene. We were given too much information about the detecting Devlin wanted his people to do. Why so much f...ing language? The word can be effective when not overused. The police surely can't talk that way in every conversation, but if they do I don't want to read every bleeping word.

I managed to finish the book, but lost interest in who actually did the murder because the author didn't make me care that much about his characters nor his protagonist.

Lately many authors insert gay and/or lesbian characters which is certainly appropriate. The problem I find with that, as in WINTER'S GOLD, is that the character is not handled very well. Levy, the lesbian cop, was a good idea in this book due to the tastes of Winter himself, who used lesbians to arouse himself, but I didn't get a good feeling what Levy was about other than her snappy comebacks at Boom Boom, the stereotyped racist, ethic slurring and homophobic cop.

Enjoyed the tactics used in the morgue on the germophobic killer to force him to reveal information. However, I found it unbelievable that as busy as medical examiners and their staffs are, they would take the time to set up this charade for one cop.

The Agatha Christie twist at the end was a good idea, but...again, I was just glad to finish the book and even that finish was an anticlimax for me.