Reviewer: Alan Chin
Publisher: Editions Cuir Noir
Pages: 358
When the mother of a precocious fourteen-year-old gay boy
claims she has evidence that mega-rock-star Jimmy Gilbert has been having sex with
her son, Private Investigator Greg Quaintance is hired by Jimmy’s lawyer to
thwart the mother’s multi-million-dollar extortion attempt. But only hours
after Greg takes the job, the mother ends up murdered and her son goes missing.
Greg’s job turns to finding the boy before any harm can come to him. From the
streets of Manhattan to the home of presidential power, the bodies start piling
up as Greg navigates his way through this plot of twists and turns.
The Rape of Ganymede is a murder mystery in the Greg
Quaintance series. It is a story that tackles a difficult subject, child
molestation, but rather than dealing with that issue effectively, the author
turns this plot into a vehicle to showcase his sexy protagonist. The dialog is
often clever, the plot highly imaginative, and a few scenes provide good action
and are well written.
For the most part, I found this to be a mildly interesting
storyline that was marred by poor writing, one-dimensional characters, and
over-the-top situations that I found impossible to suspend belief.
My chief issue is that the story is mostly told through
dialog. The author puts two people in a room and they talk for ten, fifteen, or
twenty pages at a time, over and over again. There is much talking and precious
little action. Admittedly, when there was action scenes, they were well
written. Telling a story through dialog, however, quickly turns dull and
tedious, which is how I found of most of this story.
The author does an excellent job of delving into his
protagonist, who has several layers, but every other character had little or no
depth. I think this is because these other characters have so little time on
the page that the reader never gets to know them.
Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of mystery novels, but I
have read several that impressed me. This was not one of those.
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