I’m a pretty hard reviewer. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it. Its not an all time great in my opinion, so I’m dinging it a little. There are three mysteries here that read more like Agatha Christie than Dashiel Hammet. Van Coops suggests several times that his character is based on the Maltese Falcon PI played by Bogart. All three mysteries are good. The PI uses time travel to figure out what happened… which is kind of cheating in my book.

I’m planning on reading more of this author.