A COLD MIND (David L. Lindsey) - January 28/12

This frustratingly, unreasonably overlong book is certainly well written and quite captivating in spots, as Lindsey effectively establishes a story revolving around a killer of prostitutes (he kills his victims with rabies!) and the grizzled detective attempting to track him down. But Lindsey bogs the narrative down in mind-numbing details that quickly grow oppressive. The author spends a ridiculous amount of time describing the minute routine of the investigation, and the book often feels like a procedural in the most cold, clinical sense of the word. (Did we really need pages devoted to the killer's scientific method of extracting rabies from the head of a dead dog?) *1/2 out of ****