Reviewed By: David Biemann
Done for a Dime
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
David Corbett
Class/Genre: Mystery
August 2003, Ballantine 368 pages / $24.95
In baseball there's the sophomore slump. It's where a player who showed great promise in his rookie year (See The Devil's Redhead, David Corbett's first novel.) has his production fall off either because the opposition has figured him out or the pressures of coming up with statistics matching last years catches up to the player. There's no sign of a sophomore slump at all in David Corbett's Done for a Dime. This book had me hooked from the title alone. Every character feels real. Corbett has the middle aged angst of policework down. Detective Dennis Murchison is one of the best drawn characters I've read recently and this in a year of some great books. It's important to me that the characters interactions with each other and to their situations make sense. Corbett does this well. Situations play out true, for example. When a suspect is taken in for questioning he begins to feel the psychological pressure brought to bear by the room he's in. Another of the characters, in a casually set scene, finds out things won't be as easy as he thought. It's these and other well written moments that make for a very, very good read. With Done for a Dime David Corbett has become a seasoned veteran.
David Biemann
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