![]() ![]() With its likeable lead and involving plotline, we think If the Shoe Fits will fit your reading list.īut you can't refuse, or I'll release your shameful sex tape and you'll be ruined. Shannon makes a couple of decisions that might raise an eyebrow-rashly disclosing confidential evidence to the victim's father, for example-but for the most part Roberts writes him as exactly the sort of capable hero stories like this rely upon. ![]() Conceiving Shannon as both a trusted doctor and a city official allows Roberts to provide the character access to almost every event that occurs, a useful trick in a murder mystery. The one person who isn't tailing Anway is the protagonist Clinton Shannon-local doctor, county coroner, and all around nice guy. ![]() It sounds strange, but it works, particularly because the existence of these tails is revealed only in flashback. As it happens, all of them had the opportunity to kill Anway, a feat achieved though the gimmick of having him tailed to the secluded site of his eventual murder by three cars at the same time, with two of the drivers unaware that they're involved in a coincidental caravan. Young playboy Paul Anway has his head bashed in while sitting lakeside in his convertible, and certain people had reason to hate him-the gamblers to whom he owed four grand, the two women he was dating, the jilted boyfriend of one, a sleazy detective hired for strongarm work, and possibly others. Between the covers, Roberts, aka Robert Martin, spins the tale of a smalltown murder. ![]()
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