On Thin Ice

Rating:
Summary: has most everythng but missing a little suspense...
Review: This book starts by introducing the lead character, Ellie Kramer who is taking a year off from law school to work as a legal clerk in the Boulder County District Attorney's office. Ellie has spent the past 12 years working toward a goal - to prove her father's innocence by finding the proofs that he wasn't a rapist and a murderer of a 16-year-old girl twelve years ago. Ellie grew up listening to the hatred and anger expressed by her mother on the two rookie cops who arrested and put her father in jail.

The storyline and the setting of background have all the potential for a great suspense novel except that the author revealed too early in the book who the bad guy is. I feel that after the bad guy is known, the main purpose of the story is gone and all that is left in the story for the reader is to concentrate on the interaction between Ellie and her two suspected targets - Michael and Finn. The interactions between these characters are complex, painful, and all too human. The author is good at showing that the lead characters are not without flaws and that makes them very real. They are not some blown-up heros and heroine that we are so used to reading in other novels. However, I feel that more pages could have been spent on developing the depth of these characters.

Overall, "On Thin Ice" is a good and enjoyable read. I wouldn't mind reading other works by this author.

Rating:
Summary: has most everythng but missing a little suspense...
Review: This book starts by introducing the lead character, Ellie Kramer who is taking a year off from law school to work as a legal clerk in the Boulder County District Attorney's office. Ellie has spent the past 12 years working toward a goal - to prove her father's innocence by finding the proofs that he wasn't a rapist and a murderer of a 16-year-old girl twelve years ago. Ellie grew up listening to the hatred and anger expressed by her mother on the two rookie cops who arrested and put her father in jail.

The storyline and the setting of background have all the potential for a great suspense novel except that the author revealed too early in the book who the bad guy is. I feel that after the bad guy is known, the main purpose of the story is gone and all that is left in the story for the reader is to concentrate on the interaction between Ellie and her two suspected targets - Michael and Finn. The interactions between these characters are complex, painful, and all too human. The author is good at showing that the lead characters are not without flaws and that makes them very real. They are not some blown-up heros and heroine that we are so used to reading in other novels. However, I feel that more pages could have been spent on developing the depth of these characters.

Overall, "On Thin Ice" is a good and enjoyable read. I wouldn't mind reading other works by this author.