Review by Grace2019 -- An Imperfect Crime by Fred G. Baker

[Grace2019]

[Following is a volunteer review of "An Imperfect Crime" by Fred G. Baker.]

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2 out of 4 stars

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An Imperfect Crime by Fred G. Baker

This book features two male characters who are frustrated, non-published authors. They decide they must do something to become famous and therefore they will be noticed and published. Thus the idea is created for the perfect crime. Sarah Parker is the very complex girlfriend of Alister Brown.

I gave this book a rating of 2 out of 4. After the first 11 chapters it just plodded along and seems to lose its original thought.

Peter Simpson "will" kill Alister Brown. Then at the assumed trial that will happen after Peter is convicted, Brown will appear in the courtroom and exonerate him since he was never actually killed.

Sarah Parker and Alister Brown are supposedly hiding out. However they never appear at the trial. As a consequence Simpson receives the death penalty.

On execution day, Fr. Montero, the prison chaplain, spends the last minutes with Simpson who asks him to find Brown because he is innocent of killing him. Fr. Montero promises he will.

Fr. Montero was a police officer before he was called by God to his ministry.
He contacts Lori Sanchez who was the primary detective on the murder case.

Det. Sanchez confides to Fr. Montero that she always the crime scene was staged. Too much evidence in one direction.

There's an old connection between three women who either dated Brown or Simpson and have since disappeared. One of the woman is found to have been sold to a brothel in Mexico as part of a human trafficking scheme.

It was at this point I lost interest in this book. It became very complicated with gun running, drugs, and brothels being run by Mexican cartels.
There is an unrealistic scene where Det. Sanchez is ambushed by the Mexican gang but manages to shoot her way out against vicious criminals.Then the FBI takes over the case.

Finally after many boring chapters of Sanchez and Montero chasing cartel members the story finally returns to the original concept.

The book was fun and interesting to read until the middle chapters where it took a strange twist and never recovered.

I don't recommend this book because it because very difficult to finish with all it's "dry" chapters.

Don't commit to this book if want an enjoyable read. However if you have time to kill, go for it.

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