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The Mercy Oak (2008)

by Kathryn R. Wall(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0312375344 (ISBN13: 9780312375348)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

St Martin's Minotaur

series

Bay Tanner

review 1: In the midst of a community debating immigration issues, a young woman is run down under suspicious circumstances. As the main character investigates, she finds a situation that is more complicated than first appeared. I think the author thought she was being balanced in her depiction of the immigration issue. Instead, I found that the main character had a lot of subtle (and not-so-subtle) racism, and the author lacked an understanding of the people (especially the immigrants) she was writing about. They end up being rather flat caricatures. The ending doesn't convincingly tie the different threads of the mystery together either. I got this book because I like mysteries that have a policial/social aspect to them, like Sara Paretsky, but this book disappointed on several le... morevels.
review 2: This is a murder mystery however the real mystery is figuring out why our heroinne has such a chip on her shoulder. That would be Bay Tanner and she is supposed to be portrayed as bold and gutsy, highly intellectual and undaunting female. However every action she takes depicts her as a stubborn, irrational, reckless and subconsciously bigotted annoyance. Even when in the midst of her investigation she gets shut down and threatened by the FBI who is already on top of things and about to solve the case, she ignores warnings and continues steadfast on her crusade. Sufficed to say she did nothing to really solve the case but rather interfered with an FBI operation. less

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