Crime Scene Jesse Kellerman author Jonathan Kellerman author 9781472238474 Books
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Crime Scene Jesse Kellerman author Jonathan Kellerman author 9781472238474 Books
Normally Jonathan Kellerman novels keep me turning pages right to the end. I can't get into this at all. It's so dull, so boring, drags on - UGH! I can't believe he had anything to do with writing this dud. It's taken me a week to get to Chapter 17. Normally I finish a good read in a few days. I'll struggle thru the rest of the book, but to get to chapter 17 and be bored out of my mind, doesn't give me hope it's going to get better.Product details
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Crime Scene Jesse Kellerman author Jonathan Kellerman author 9781472238474 Books Reviews
I like Jonathan Kellerman so I was interested to see how his son would do.
In a word poorly.
The secondary characters seemed to come straight out of central casting. We had the obnoxious rich wife, the temptress daughter, the alcoholic ex-detective, the doubting superior, and on and on. Clay Edison, the main character, had nothing to set him apart from the 140,000 other main characters.
Even the plot line – a police official (in this case a coroner’s investigator) continues to pursue a case he’s been told to drop – has been done enough times to qualify as a cliché.
Characters hinted at things then never explained them to the reader.
Some of the conversations – mainly those set in the morgue – were near to impossible to follow. The first one in chapter 5 was especially confusing. I read it, it made no sense, I read it again, and it still made no sense. Two more readings didn’t change that. It was an attempt to capture a multi-person conversation, but it just did not work.
The last 38% of this book was tagged as page 411 in this download. By my calculation, if page 411 is 62% of the book, then this book is actually 662 pages long. , B & N, and several other sites all show this book running around 400 pages in every format. Whether the screw-up is in the first 62% or the last 38% of this download, continues its masterful ineptitude of page numbering.
And what do we get in those around 408 or possibly 662 pages? A slow-moving, dull, plodding story with no tension and as engaging as a grocery list.
Definitely a 1-star book. So, Jesse Kellerman is permanently banished from my ‘To Read’ list.
Gave up about a third of the way in. Boring. Boring characters, crime, locations. Everything.
I tried to get through this book but it never caught my interest and I just stopped reading 60% through--something I hardly ever do. I love both his parents' books but reading this author is like having a second job--it's work. The text is generally leaden, the characters uninteresting, the plot less than engaging. (Occasionally there is some interesting text which bears the mark of the father, not the son.) What kept me reading is that it is strangely well-written--I kept asking why something that was well organized, clear, and direct could be so boring. What came to me Jesse must be a very good, if not exactly riveting, NON-fiction writer; I bet he got A+ on all his essays and compositions in school. But to write fiction you need additional skills; in fact if you have those skills you don't actually need to be a good writer in the most basic sense (consider the Kay Scarpetta novels--the initial ones were clunky and embarrassingly awkward but the plot was fascinating and the author knew what she was talking about).
That comparison is kind of obvious--Jesse's protagonist (Clay Edison) works in a coroner's office but there is hardly anything about the actual business of the office that comes through. You would think Edison was simply working an ordinary job that occasionally brought him into contact with murders (plus all the material about working with psychologists was clearly written by the father and has little to do with the plot).
This was a waste of my effort and goodwill. I don't think his parents are doing him any favor in the long run. They may be hurting their own sales.
Crime Scene by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is the first in a new series by two excellent and entertaining writers. Jonathan brings a ton of experience to this genre and his son offers fresh insights and new vision.
Clay Edison is a Berkeley, California cop but not on the street. He is a Coroner’s Investigator who examines all deaths that are not natural. In Crime Scene Clay is looking at the death of a psychologist and others who traveled in the dead man’s circle. Initially it looks like a natural death, the cause of death ruled a heart attack. But there are circumstances that bother Clay and he refuses to call the death natural. A twisty, sometimes subtle, and involving investigation begins and before too long the death creates more questions than answers.
I am a huge Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman fan and welcome this new series. It goes without too much thought that I recommend the back list of both outstanding writers as well as Crime Scene.
I'm writing this short review for my 81 year-old mother, who is a huge fan of Jonathan Kellerman. She was disappointed in this book, as it appears to be mostly all Jesse's writing. Not sure if he's riding on his dad's coattails or what, but this one was a complete bomb. Don't waste your money.
While I am a great fan of Lellerman pere, and have delighted in all of his books, I found this collaboration to be choppy, inscrutable (but not worth rereading to understand who killed who and I have a high IQ) and not worth the time I took to read it. I was very disappointed and I do not believe that father and son have mutually enhancing styles. Please Jonathan write by yourself. Jesse will do fine on his own.
The story started off with new information and characters linked to academic research in human development. At 22% (kindle), here comes a well known character from Kellerman's other novels. Oh! What's this? Slowly, the various data and clues began to make sense. Although deceased, the professor left much evidence to be sorted. The coroner persisted, often on personal time, linking law enforcement, medicine, mental health, and judiciary communities. The clinical social worker brought understanding and environmental changes to the accused killer. Many ethical and legal issues need to be sorted out. Overall, the sad story leaves much to contemplate about society's definitions of good and evil.
Normally Jonathan Kellerman novels keep me turning pages right to the end. I can't get into this at all. It's so dull, so boring, drags on - UGH! I can't believe he had anything to do with writing this dud. It's taken me a week to get to Chapter 17. Normally I finish a good read in a few days. I'll struggle thru the rest of the book, but to get to chapter 17 and be bored out of my mind, doesn't give me hope it's going to get better.
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