Betrayed

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Call Number: Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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This series has fallen far. submitted by eknapp on November 9, 2011, 3:33pm Oy. I used to love the Karp-Ciampi series (this is somewhere around the 22nd entry). It was like Law & Order with colorful characters and more action.

Somewhere along the line the dialogue became drier and more expository than burned toast. (Yes, toast can be expository.) The good guys practically have wings and halos and float six inches off the ground; the bad guys are laughably, cartoonishly evil and often buffoonishly incompetent.

Used to be a fun series, with at least the occasional ATTEMPT at moral grayness. Alas.

Anyway, in this outing Butch tries a black Muslim imam for the torture-murder of one of his congregants; the defendant breaks out a big-lie "the government is out to get all Muslims" defense. Marlene defends Dirty Warren when he's framed for murder. Guess who wins.