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3.0étoiles sur 5
A Good Plot, But a Little Stilted/Obvious in Places, Mai 10 2004
Tom Mason, remedial English teacher at Grover Cleveland High School in Chicago, walked into his classroom and found the dead body of a math teacher, Jim Evans, sitting at a desk in the back. Tom didn't know Jim well, but he had his son, Phil, in his class one year and found himself sucked in to the whole mess to try and clear Phil's name. Tom quickly discovered that Jim Evans had a lot of secrets worth killing for - and a lot of people who would be happy to see him dead. There were the female students who slept with him for passing grades, his son Phil whom he used to beat regularly, the people who owed him money on bets that he ran through a math lab program and a host of others. Tom realized early on that he was in over his head when every answer simply brought up more questions, but he was determined to find out who killed Evans and left him in his classroom - especially after Phil disappeared.Dragging his closeted lover, Scott Carpenter, a famous baseball player, along for the ride, Tom started looking for Phil out on the streets, well aware that Phil was hustling to bring in money. He got a solid lead at The Womb, a popular bar, when Daphne, the bar's owner, agreed to let them see Phil so that they knew he was all right. However, Tom was unable to persuade Phil to return home and Phil wasn't able to give Tom a lot of information about his father's death. Tom kept pushing forward, interviewing whomever he could to try and pry more information out of them, but all the people that he interviewed had their own secrets to keep. With his supervisors at work pressuring him to stop his investigation or resign, the policemen assigned to the task force belittling his efforts at solving the case, and random attacks on his person and property, Tom knows he should listen to Scott's pleas to let the case go, but Tom has always been known for his stubbornness... This is the first book in the Tom Mason/Scott Carpenter mystery series and I thought it was quite enjoyable, but not as good as it could have been. The plot was well done, with plenty of little subplots, suspects and red herrings, but the dialogue was stilted and the relationship between Tom and Scott seemed pretty sappy to me. I also got a little irritated about how Zubro tried to use dialogue to show what his characters were going to do next, like saying "Scott, I really think we should go and talk to x - I think he knows more than he is telling and I am going to go there now." I also thought that the policemen investigating the case were stereotyped as being stupid and inept. The main character, Tom, seemed to find out all kinds of stuff that the police had no clue about and, of course, ended up solving the mystery(ies) before the police even knew that it was a mystery to be solved. Still, I enjoyed the book enough to check out the next book in the series - hopefully Zubro will grow with his characters!
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