THE RIGHTEOUS CUT

The Righteous Cut
by Robert Skinner
Poisoned Pen Press
ISBN-10: 1590580443
ISBN-13: 978-1590580448
$14.95

I still catching my breath from reading the Righteous Cut by RobertSkinner.

This takes place after prohibition in New Orleans of 1941 involving theissues of bi-racial relationships and the inner sanctum of the legal andslightly, or very, illegal community.

Mr. Skinner introduces numerous characters for the first half of the book.I kept wondering how these were all going to relate to each other andactually was suspicious of the book having extra characters that weren'tinvolved with the plot. Then I read page 171 and the book went into lightspeed. All the characters did develop and were all instrumental to thefocus of the plot which was for a politician to be ruined. Of course, thepolitician wasn't exactly involved in matters legally. The purpose of allthe characters is to somehow, get even with Whitman Richards whose name evensound like a politician's name. (It should be since he chose it.)
I found myself loving one of the hit men who had a moral dilemma and foundthat I was sympathetic to even some of the bad guys. What I foundinteresting is that I, as a reader, kept changing my mind on who was reallywearing the white hats.

This is definitely a book that kept me wondering and thinking up to the lastpage.