Kelly Higgins

Completely torn about this. It feels like 2 completely different stories of roughly the same length awkwardly spliced together. The first half is terrific and I suspect that he wrote that in the 80s or 90s but couldn't bring the story to a good enough conclusion to be satisfactory. Without giving it away It’s the heinous murder of a child in a small town and it looks as though one of the town's most beloved residents has to be responsible. Eyewitness and physical evidence all point to him and the community is out for blood. Only problem is that he has a rock solid alibi, complete with other Witness which also checks out. There's equal evidence for either side and the cops and district attorney are completely flummoxed. At almost 50% into the book that story ends and from there on it brings in characters from his very poorly written detective trilogy about aretired detective named Hedges and the Rest of the book is disappointing I wished I'd red the first half and then quit reading. 5 stars for the first half and 1 star for the second. Averages out to 3.