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title: "Mission Flats: A Novel"
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# Mission Flats: A Novel

**Brand:** william landay
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Mission Flats: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

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    No Hall of Mirrors in this Versailles
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 3, 2012*

Although I'm giving this novel four stars, I think I'm going off "crime" novels for a while.  "Crime novels" may be distinguished from "thrillers," or "suspense novels," or "mysteries," however,  I think the reason I'm enjoying certain Scandinavian authors at present is that crime is not the dominant feature of their novels.  Yes, there is always crime, but the psychological aspects are critical, the interaction of the characters is superb, and there are multiple themes threaded through the books, giving a view on time and place that is very rewarding.  In any case, I generally prefer mysteries that focus more on tea (English) or coffee (Scandinavian) than on grisly crime scenes.The problem with Mission Flats is that it's all about crime - that's all there is.  After a while, that gets depressing.  The cops, the victims, the perpetrators.  All this is very well done in Landay's book, but there are only so many scenarios for crime fiction, and I can see why police officers might get tired of doing the same thing year after year, for an entire career, knowing that when one crime is solved, there's always another one to take its place.  As a cop, it might be nice to be in a profession where one is contributing more to the betterment of society.  And of course, that's what cops do.  They do away with criminals and try to make society a safer, better place for others to live.  But it seems like a Sisyphean task to me.This book makes the four-star category, however, because of the characters.  Ben Truman, police chief in the one horse (imaginary) town of Versailles, Maine, goes to big-city Boston and adds an entirely different dimension to policing while there.  The fact that the residents pronounce the name of their town "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sigh" adds a whimsical touch, and highlights the difference between sophisticated Boston cops and back-country hayseeds.  Also, interactions among the cops are interesting, and the mixture of bad guys who aren't always bad and cops who aren't always good is another plus.Reviews characterize Landay as the new John Grisham, but I think Landay is better than that.  I used to enjoy Grisham, but I now find him one of the "popular" crime authors who seem rather repetitious.  So, I'll probably give Landay another try, but not right away.

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    A fine read
  

*by R***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2023*

Enjoyed this novel very much. I read Defending Jacob a number of time, all before reading this, Landay's first, and while this is not as good as that book, it is a very, very good book.

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    Solved too soon
  

*by G***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2022*

Liked the writing style. Local color. I solved the crime much too early so too much of the rest of the novel was boring. Love interest poorly developed. No character to really care about.

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