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I Right the Wrongs: A Novel

de Dylan Schaffer

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Dylan Schaffer's sequel to Misdemeanor Man is a mind-bending whodunit about small crime, big crime, and the Barry Manilow-loving lawyer caught in the middle. "Drop-dead funny."-Rocky Mountain News "Gordon Seegerman...is back for another fun-filled, quirky go-round on the streets of Santa Rita...A rewarding read."-Chicago Sun-Times "I Right the Wrongs is the entertaining kind of page turner you'll pursue to the end, then look around for the next in the series." -Tampa Tribune "A treat...an over-the-top romp with a generous heart and a couple of nice twists at the end." -New Orleans Times-Picayune "If somebody told me they wrote a book about learning to bake bread with their curmudgeonly, dying father, I would have said, 'Break out the violins and wake me up when it's over.' But Dylan Schaffer has created something genuinely sharp and entertaining here. What a fantastic surprise."-Beth Lisick, author of Everybody in the Pool… (més)
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This book and Misdemeanor Man are right up the alley of any Barry Manilow fan. A detective/lawyer who is also the front man of a Barry Manilow cover band try to balance working his daily job and trying to play for the man himself.

The book is quirky and will elicit a smile from any Fanilow. ( )
  Joles | May 7, 2008 |
The hero of this book is so engaging that I'll eagerly read the next, and possibly pick up the first in the series (Misdemeanor Man - clever, right?) Who can resist a stubbornly loyal Manilow fan? The ensemble too is delightful...Preet, Meave and Terry are fresh as can be, if a little Rainbow-coalition-ish, but this *is* SanFrancisco, so that can be forgiven.

HOWEVER - the mystery itself got steamrolled by poor Gordy's life. I do love the Dad/Grampa/brother storyline. It's the most innovative series-detective backstory I've seen in a long time, and can easily sustain a series. I do NOT love Gordy's relentless mooning over his ex. Cut her loose, DS! She really drags the story down, especially since there was no moving forward over the course of this book. It's okay to have multi-book character arcs, but it's NOT okay for them to be static.

Besides, it's a criminal waste not to have Gordy's character in new relationships.

The flip side of this is that the entire stew of secondary storylines must be subservient to the mystery. And this mystery just wasn't interesting enough to keep everything glued together. Perhaps if there was more tension - no one is in peril, and with all the action behind us, the reader goes into ho-hum mode.

And there are simply waaaaay too many characters! I'm especially inept at keeping track of large casts, but still, cutting it to a few - or even tossing the reader a few bones in the form of stronger identifying keys - would help. ( )
  swl | Jun 14, 2007 |
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Dylan Schaffer's sequel to Misdemeanor Man is a mind-bending whodunit about small crime, big crime, and the Barry Manilow-loving lawyer caught in the middle. "Drop-dead funny."-Rocky Mountain News "Gordon Seegerman...is back for another fun-filled, quirky go-round on the streets of Santa Rita...A rewarding read."-Chicago Sun-Times "I Right the Wrongs is the entertaining kind of page turner you'll pursue to the end, then look around for the next in the series." -Tampa Tribune "A treat...an over-the-top romp with a generous heart and a couple of nice twists at the end." -New Orleans Times-Picayune "If somebody told me they wrote a book about learning to bake bread with their curmudgeonly, dying father, I would have said, 'Break out the violins and wake me up when it's over.' But Dylan Schaffer has created something genuinely sharp and entertaining here. What a fantastic surprise."-Beth Lisick, author of Everybody in the Pool

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