Walter Walker

Compulsively readable; good match for those (like me) who liked [b:Defending Jacob|11367726|Defending Jacob|William Landay|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329612158s/11367726.jpg|16298550] by William Landay or [b:Indefensible|18144020|Indefensible|Lee Goodman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1403346280s/18144020.jpg|25539458] by Lee Goodman, AND who used to gobble up Dominick Dunne stories about rich power families (ahem, the Kennedys) in Vanity Fair. This book gets mentioned alongside Grisham and Turow (probably because those are the only two legal thriller authors people know), and I think that's a disservice. Much more solid writing, plotting, character. If a reader likes Grisham, he/she *may* like Walker, but I don't think it works the other way around.… (mehr)

What an unmitigated mess this book is. I am not sure whether to blame the authors I have read lately for not having a single original thought, or if I need to blame myself for picking such lousy books to read, but this book was awful. Much like [b:Schroder|15018713|Schroder|Amity Gaige|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1340468250s/15018713.jpg|20673281] is a blatant ripoff of the Clark Rockefeller case, this atrocity is a wholesale ripoff of the William Kennedy Smith and Michael Skakel rape and murder cases respectively. The writing is pedestrian, the "characters" (I put this in quotes because it is so easy to spot the real people who are indeed not fictional characters)were one-dimensional and this book had absolutely no plot. Hated it, couldn't wait to be finished with it. For the love of all that is holy, I beg the publishing community to stop pawning off "novels" which are simple retelling of true-life events done poorly and with the gall to claim they are literary accomplishments.… (mehr)

Having grown up in Massachusetts in a time when the Kennedy family was revered by many, i'd wanted to read this book for awhile, before i ever got a copy. Shades of the dynasty are throughout the book....Will Smiths rape trial in Florida, the Skakel murder sensation in CT. (i think that's where it took place), the family compound on the Cape.... Add a few more sleazy characters and change the times and dates and voila!

This story however revolves around a fringe character- not family and not quite a friend. There is manipulation and sabotage, cover-ups and of course- money.

So sure, if interested give it a whirl. You just might feel like you need to wash your hands afterwards....… (mehr)