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Nothing To Hide (2012)

by J. Mark Bertrand(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0764206397 (ISBN13: 9780764206399)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bethany House Publishers

series

A Roland March Mystery

review 1: Without giving away the plot, I'll say that this book is ambitious for a detective novel. That is, it was more expansive than the police procedurals I'm accustomed to reading. Did Bertrand pull it off? I think he did. The author has crime lit skills for sure. Bertrand reminds me of Michael Connelly with the way he lays out one detail after another like you're there. His descriptions of settings and characters are thorough without being overbearing. It helps to know specific Houston geography because the protagonist is an HPD officer. As an aside, I'm curious to see how Bertrand's writing would change if he had the freedom of a non-Xian publisher. This is definitely cleaner than most other detective novels I'm accustomed to reading (i.e. no bad language). I want to say more... more about this book, but the author is a FB friends and I don't want to blow the plot publicly. So read his books yourself and hit me up with your take and I'll elaborate on mine. One final thing: I've read Back on Murder but somehow skipped to installment #3 before reading #2. So I need to go back and read Pattern of Wounds.
review 2: My review would probably be very different had I not bought this book at a Christian bookstore. It was gorey in detail (including things like the skin being peeled away from a fresh, headless corpse's hands to get rid of his prints), which I tried to get past, but couldn't. I was so bored one evening that I picked it up again and saw the phrase, "homocide cherry", referring to a character who had yet to see a murder scene. Again, for a book from a Christian book store, this shocked me. I rolled my eyes and closed the book for good. less

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