Chris reviewed A philosophical investigation by Philip Kerr
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2 stars
So if I'm right this book got to the idea of "Dexter" before "Dexter" (although a long time after Philip K Dick's "Minority Report" which introduced us to 'pre-crime', and also downstream of the now discredited Victorian pseudo science of phrenology)? I read this several years ago and don't remember being very impressed. The main problem I think I had was the idea of a police detective hating all men. I suppose it makes a change from the detective being racist, but still, how would she care about the 75-80% of all murder victims who are male to say nothing of being tempted to let female criminals off the hook, or being prejudiced in cases of domestic abuse? Post-Ferguson or even after the LA riots there is something not entirely kosher about that. I also identified a common problem of male authors trying to write 'strong' female characters and making …
So if I'm right this book got to the idea of "Dexter" before "Dexter" (although a long time after Philip K Dick's "Minority Report" which introduced us to 'pre-crime', and also downstream of the now discredited Victorian pseudo science of phrenology)? I read this several years ago and don't remember being very impressed. The main problem I think I had was the idea of a police detective hating all men. I suppose it makes a change from the detective being racist, but still, how would she care about the 75-80% of all murder victims who are male to say nothing of being tempted to let female criminals off the hook, or being prejudiced in cases of domestic abuse? Post-Ferguson or even after the LA riots there is something not entirely kosher about that. I also identified a common problem of male authors trying to write 'strong' female characters and making them psychotic instead because they don't want to deal with the complexity.
