Bloodman

Anaphora overload, bad jokes (“Dylan had gone electric,” in reference to a violent hurricane), and all sorts of primetime crime-solving cliches. There's an interesting contrast and connection between the murder investigation and the main character's return home to his estranged and hospitalized father, but the procedural stuff is just too schlocky to coincide with the more introspective aspects of the novel.

Anaphora overload, bad jokes (“Dylan had gone electric,” in reference to a violent hurricane), and all sorts of primetime crime-solving cliches. There's an interesting contrast and connection between the murder investigation and the main character's return home to his estranged and hospitalized father, but the procedural stuff is just too schlocky to coincide with the more introspective aspects of the novel.