Book Review

Restitution (2007)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Jul 10, 2007; Writer: Lee Vance; Genres: Mystery and Thriller, True Crime; Publisher: Knopf

Investment manager Peter Tyler's wife is murdered and Restitution’s ordinary-guy hero is the prime suspect; he's gotta solve the case to save his own skin.

Grisliest Death
Not the wife's (it's only referred to), but there is a description of breaking a puppy's neck.

Final Word
First-time suspenser Lee Vance too often substitutes plots-within-plots (art scams! embezzlement! pharmaceutical-company scandal!) for genuine action. B-

Originally posted Jul 06, 2007 Published in issue #943 Jul 13, 2007 Order article reprints

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