Lieberman's Folly

Abe "Rabbi" Liberman is a sixty year old Chicago PD Detective with bad knees. His partner Bill "Father Murphy" Halloran is a lapsed catholic, separated from his wife, and too familiar with the bottle. When one of their long-time informants asks them for protection, they agree... then she's murdered. Abe and Bill need to find her killer. Everything in this book is linear. The story moves ahead at a decent pace, and the clues are easy to find. No one in this book is a genius or a crime fighting avenger. Everyone just does their job. The weakness of the book is the characters. And there are many of them.. maybe too many. No one becomes a person because there just isn't enough time. But this is a series by a very fine writer and hopefully, everything will work out, and flesh out as the series unfolds.

I thought that this book was fairly interesting. There wasn't too much blood and guts in it, yet there wasn't too little. The author uses great methods in his description of the setting. I also adore his lack of fear to use vulgar language in the novel, making it more exciting, fun, and daring to follow along. Overall, I was fairly impressed with the book.