Bill,
I was a bit disappointed when I first read White Arrest, too.
And I remembered so little of it, I had to reread it when the
second in the trilogy came out. It worked a lot better in
conjunction with that, even better as part of the
trilogy.
Although the plot is wrapped up in each of the three, all
three are needed to really get to know the characters, and
the characters are what these books are really all about. As
you note, these police novels are short on procedure -- when
a crime is solved (whether or not the investigators ever ifnd
out about it), it's more often by chance than by
investigation.
Although it wasn't that early a book of Bruen's (he'd already
written several, including three crime novels), it is the
first to employ his now trademark clipped style. It takes
reading all three of the trilogy for the substance to catch
up with the style, but it does.
Mark
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