Books by Robert Rotenberg
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review 1: I want to say this is "typical Rotenberg", but that makes it sound less than excellent. It's what I'm coming to expect from him - a great story told by a new master of the genre. Even when he foreshadows the ending, he keeps me guessing. Not a minor note, Rotenberg manages to wri...
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review 1: I really like this series; I like the characters, I like the city (Toronto), I like the dynamics by which the plots unfold. I also like that Mr Rotenberg makes the effort to release the information about the crime in an "organic" way. I have always disliked the practice of many m...
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review 1: I do love a good mystery/courtroom thriller and this book was both. This is the first book by Rotenberg that I have read and it was very, very good. The characters are well-formed, the plot is plausible, the twists and turns were unpredictable and this all adds up to a very enj...
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review 1: Old City Hall is set in Toronto and the title refers to a real, historic building there now used as a courthouse. The wife of a prominent radio host is found in a bathtub, and he says "I killed her". One knows that he didn't or there would be no story, but it takes an investig...
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review 1: Grabbed this as a camping read and I really liked it, more than I expected I would. A bit too much foreshadowing for me (yes, I guessed who-dun-it before the end, though I didn't guess all the details) but not nearly as bad as others I've read in this genre. I loved that the bo...
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review 1: Each book by this author gets better. The main characters, Detectives Ari Greene and Daniel Kennicott, are well-developed and sympathetic. I liked the pace of this book, although I figured out the guilty party about 2/3rds of the way through. The resemblance of Hap Charlton to a ...