Fool’s Gold,
Bill Merrit
The quote on the book’s jacket by mystery writer Phillip
Margolin captures Fool’s Gold very well, “Bill Merritt has written a wacky,
original, and unpredictable book with a cast of incompetent and crooked
lawyers, insane treasure hunters, and other assorted screwballs that works as a
legal thriller, a comedy, and a mystery.”
I would disagree on the thriller aspect, it is a legal journey, but you
are never sensing real danger.
An attorney dies; his partner of 3 months is caught in a web
of treasure hunting, pot, a strange legal system, and a story that spins out of
control of the attorney. The characters
are the book. It is a vehicle for
craziness and the mystery and the threats are all low key and do not really
move the book along.
I found myself moving steadily through the book and enjoyed
my reading, but at the end I asked myself what I just read. Consider it light reading and leave it at
that.
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