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Liked this a great deal. Well written, clever, fast-paced, a real nail-biter at times. There are moments of genuine darkness, and moments of profound emotion. The very complicated plot could be off-putting if you don't like that sort of thing - as could the multiple first-person POVs. But I was captivated and grew to like all the characters, except for one, who was hateful all the way through.

Set in the future, but not too far in the future, we see an America not unlike what we know today, but more frighteningly polarized and fascinatingly higher tech than now. If there is a central character, it is Drew Parker, a gay detective (whose being gay is treated incidentally, which rather disappointed me), a Wiccan mother of two; a power-hungry Baptist senator; a sleep-deprived cop; an elderly Cherokee shaman; and a skittish fourteen year old named Benji.

If you're an obsessive reader (as I can be sometimes) and try to keep every plot thread separate, you'll be frustrated or dizzy. Just go with the flow and let Hartman's smart narrative keep you on your toes. (Ignore the iffy editing and the sometime inability to use the pronouns "me" and "I" correctly, which seems to be universal now...these are but blips in a really good read.)


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The Gumshoe The Witch And The Virtual Corpse Keith Hartman 9781892065056 Books Reviews

First of all, thumb down for Meisha Merlin both for letting this novel out of print and for severely bad cover glueing the first problem I solved thanks to second-hand service, the second by leading a wild chase of all the pages blown away by the wind.

It was worth the effort.

Mr Hartman's novel is finely written (some undue repetitions here and there the police officers keep on "flashing" their badge in front of every soul), witty, original and thrilling more than fair for a first book.

Set in a xxi (?) century Atlanta where many different ways of life have come to an uneasy truce more due to segregationisms than to real tolerance, this novel unfurls slowly at first. Well, there is the gory episode at the graveyard but it actually involves a corpse and is viewed in a detached sort of way, so that the reader may know that something is seriously wrong but he/she is nonetheless distracted by the many minor events involving the multitude of main and side characters.

Here, right at the beginning, the author strikes the main assets and the main flaws of the entire novel he has this humourous way of highlighting the absurdities of everyday life, this poisonous insight of human inability to overcome shortcomings and this is food for constant merriment and not so merry thoughts. At the same time we realise that his many characters, who provide a constant and interesting shift of POV are only superficially outlined and lack real depth.

The good ones are endearing and funny, the evil ones are duly scary, but I had the impression of always facing the same person sex, gender, age, ethnicity varied but the language (and the humour) used for each of them was just the same, a mistake which dramatically diminuishes the value of this book.

Further on we understand how closely the lives of all these characters are connected while the atmosphere gradually becomes darker, grimmer, more and more oppressing. It does not really matter that halfway through the book we already guess what happened and why the point is that the apparently peaceful Atlanta we saw at the beginning has become an alltoo believable near-hell where tension is unbearable and which unconfortably resembles our own present day cities. Cities where quiet and tolerance are probably only a fassade to mask a real turmoil of ethnical, religious, social problems ready to explode.

At the end evil is satisfyingly (and wittily - Mr Hartman never abandons his fun-filled writing to preach) punished but the restored peace is now known to us for what it is unstable and frail; there has been no real purging of evil because people have not reached a deeper understanding of what is needed to coexist in a civilised way heartfelt tolerance.

This novel was probably meant to be the first of a series let us hope Mr Hartman publish and even better second episode.

Religious people might want (or perhaps not) to avoid reading this book the author makes a point of never offending any belief, but it is really easy to understand his position about any fundamentalisms throughout the story every extreme attitude, including some aspects of gay way of life is wittily exposed (and the main character, the lovable gay PI is his main instrument to do that) but it is also clear that only religious fanaticism is shown to be able to lead to violence and death.
Highly original, captivating, and socially relevant. Ten different and relateable narrators from Baptist, gay, Native American, Wiccan, and other factions in the near future get in each other's ways to form a coherent and engaging story. A strong commentary on the effects of modern media on critical thinking and social groups. Multiple annoying typos and other errors in the edition that the author and copy editor should have corrected. At first I thought the errors were supposed to correspond to different characters, conveying that not all of them are excellent writers, but then it became clear that all the errors were due to negligence and disrespect of the reader.
Liked this a great deal. Well written, clever, fast-paced, a real nail-biter at times. There are moments of genuine darkness, and moments of profound emotion. The very complicated plot could be off-putting if you don't like that sort of thing - as could the multiple first-person POVs. But I was captivated and grew to like all the characters, except for one, who was hateful all the way through.

Set in the future, but not too far in the future, we see an America not unlike what we know today, but more frighteningly polarized and fascinatingly higher tech than now. If there is a central character, it is Drew Parker, a gay detective (whose being gay is treated incidentally, which rather disappointed me), a Wiccan mother of two; a power-hungry Baptist senator; a sleep-deprived cop; an elderly Cherokee shaman; and a skittish fourteen year old named Benji.

If you're an obsessive reader (as I can be sometimes) and try to keep every plot thread separate, you'll be frustrated or dizzy. Just go with the flow and let Hartman's smart narrative keep you on your toes. (Ignore the iffy editing and the sometime inability to use the pronouns "me" and "I" correctly, which seems to be universal now...these are but blips in a really good read.)