Admirably Perfect and Impossible to Love: When Mastery Creates a Yawn

[...]it is a nearly perfect film, and utterly, utterly boring." Daughters who died of drug overdoses, marriages falling apart, despair nigh onto suicide, anger issues, pressure from the mayor's office, officious supervisors who somehow were put in charge even though they know nothing of real police work-all are common as dandelions. [...]life is quite predictable, but it's the quirky details and events that give us pause, that make us look more closely and feel the wonder. J. Madison Davis is the author of eight mystery novels, including The Murder of Frau Schütz, an Edgar nominee, and Law and Order: Dead Line.