What I'm NOT Reading Now: The Narrows

I try to read lots of different audiobooks; often I don't even look at a cover or synopsis before I try a book. This plan can have big pay-offs; some of the best books I've read are those that I would have skipped if I had seen the covers first.

I tried to get through Michael Connelly's The Narrows, I really did. I think I just don't like the popular modern genre of "crime drama", and I don't understand why they sell so well.

I was actually laughing when, for the half-dozenth time, the investigator stopped a line of questioning and said to himself "I knew I'd visit this later, but ... [insert excuse here]." It's ridiculous that the main character was flagging at his duties in an obvious attempt to unfold secrets to the reader at an appropriate pace to maintain reader interest. Then when you throw in the first-person view of the homicidal maniac getting sexually aroused from the thought of the torture he'd perform, and I was done.

I put this one down after a few chapters, and it's pages won't occupy my shelf nor will its digital audio dwell on my hard disk like the rest of my collection.