ACTS OF MALICE (Perri O'Shaughnessy) - February 1/11

This is a sporadically entertaining yet ridiculously overlong legal thriller that feels like a 15o page novel ungainly expanded out to 450 pages. There's some interesting stuff here, but the author has filled the book with so many subplots and instances of padding that it eventually becomes a little tedious. I dunno; it's basically entertaining, in spite of the fact that it's not very well written, and the ending was pretty exciting. (Can't believe they killed Collier.) **1/2 out of ****