So many problems with this book...
Taking place in Sicily in 1943 during World War II, Eddie Harkins, a Philadelphia beat cop, is now the first MP on the scene of a murder case. As he is very reluctant to take the case and eager to hand it off to someone else, he gets told that he is to head up the murder investigation and discover the killer. Okay so first of all this book has an extremely slow beginning. Like slow to the point where it put me to sleep several times trying to get through it. Also the author switches from one point of view to another and while this works for some books does not work for this book and is extremely disorienting. I found myself having to reread sections of the book in order to follow along properly. The ending of the book had some good action in it but was very short-lived. Now onto my two HUGE problems with this book.... 1. Military Police do NOT get put on to solve murder cases. That is actually a separate division. That would either fall under the branches of NCIS or CID depending on the investigation and the branch of the military investigating it. An ordinary MP would definitely not formally head up a murder investigation. 2. The incessant talk of sex and rape in this book is stifling. I found it completely unnecessary for plot purposes and frankly it just turned me off from the book entirely. Whether this may or may not be historically accurate is beside the point. And noting that the author made such a huge mistake with who can head up a murder investigation in the military makes me think that research was not fully done to create this book. I'm sorry but that takes the realism out of it for me. I'm sorry but I will not be recommending this book. I received a free copy of this book from McMillan in exchange for an honest review.
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