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Books REVIEW | Killing Time by Caleb Carr

I haven't finished this book either. I loved Carr's first two books, The Alienist and Angel of Darkness, brilliant portraits of early 1900's psychiatry and profiling combined with murder investigations. Fascinating well written books that I couldn't put down.

I haven't finished this book either. I loved Carr's first two books, The Alienist and Angel of Darkness, brilliant portraits of early 1900's psychiatry and profiling combined with murder investigations. Fascinating well written books that I couldn't put down.

I can't say the same for Killing Time. It was syndicated in Time magazine which I didn't realize until I happened on the second installment. I tracked down all the parts on the website and read the first part but it just didn't grab me. But I bought the book anyway. So far it reads like a bad version of Heinlein and not even Heinlein's best books either. It's full of ominous portents, "....but it was nothing compared to what was about to happen..." and the Heinlein requisite beautiful woman willing to sleep with the main character without even the drop of a hat. Bleh.

I keep reading in hopes that it will improve but then it's hard to pick it up and read more because it's been so bad before. I guess three isn't Carr's magic number...

Otoh, Scott Turow has a new book out and his last six haven't failed me, every one of them has been a superlative example of the best of the legal/murder mystery genre.