Blind Man's Alley (Paperback)

from etrainer

Blind Man's Alley is a satisfying mystery, if not a legal 'Thriller'. The suspense arises from uncertainty about how the truth will be proven in a court of law rather than who committed the crime. Trying to follow the clues and deduce 'who done it' is most of the fun of reading mysteries for me. ...

from levasssp

Contrary to some other reviews, I do not think that this book started slowly. Although there is no real "action" in the early part of the book, Peacock does a great job building characters and setting up the story, which I think is required for this type of story. Some others have compared Peacoc...

from bluepigeon

I had a hard time with this one. It was long and not really my thing, I suppose. I found the subject matter and the legal language a bit too dense and so it was hard to get into the murder mystery part. I only read it because I got the book in first reads and so I wanted to give it a try and be a...

from Draak

Ok I really wanted to like this book. The description on the jacket sounded good. On the first few pages there are so many people introduced that it was hard to keep them straight and this continued throughout the book. Even mentioning people that had very little to do with the plot. I was consta...

from debavp

I gave this a half star bump up because I didn't want even a subconscious affect on my review for the book being four months late in arriving as there were too many trite little problems that annoyed me. The author touches on the practice of "passing" and tosses it around to the point of being ne...