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Not up to Grisham's usual standard of storytelling. Florida Board on Judicial Conduct investigator Lacey Stoltz is after a corrupt Florida judge stealing money from a Native American casino, which is in turn run by a kind of Indian mafia. The plot is complex and it takes almost as long for the narrator to recap it at the end of the book so we understand what happened as it does to tell the story. All in all kind of boring

With the reading of The Whistler, I have discovered the value of a great author. Grisham is a great author. Why? Because the subject matter of The Whistler wasn't especially interesting to me but Grisham's skills and writing style made it a fun read. The last five books I have read were, in many parts, excruciatingly slow. I didn't encounter any of those parts in The Whistler.

Character development was excellent and he never really lingered on any one issue for too long. The only questionable part of the book was the ending. It seemed a little rushed. It was kind of like the author got bored writing the book or he ran up against a deadline.

This is still a solid 4-star book.

This is one of [a:John Grisham|721|John Grisham|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1413390525p2/721.jpg]'s better novels, dealing with an investigation into allegations that a judge is corrupt, which uncovers a major crime syndicate.

It isn't really a detective novel, since the investigators are not detectives, and their breakthroughs in the case mainly come from informers or lucky accidents, with activities and suspects being caught on videotape, or careless slips by the criminals.