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Book Review By BethG
Deviant Behavior by Earl W. Emerson

This book is one in a series featuring detective Thomas Black. He lives and works in Seattle. He has been hired by a couple to find their missing teenage son. He has few clues and no pictures of the boy, as he tore them all up. The boy's brother Buzz is the only one who can really help. He stumbles upon a six-year-old suicide that may have something to do with the boy's disapperance. He felt that that there was something more to the suicide than meets the eye. Black finds out that he was right, when he stumbles upon a stash of several hundred thousand dollars hidden in an abandoned building where the man used to work. And the man's old employer is still working in town and recently beat up the missing boy.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
Misc. Murder Plotlets - solving long-past murder
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 80%
Special suspect? - chronically deranged person
Kind of investigator
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
descript. of violence and chases - 20 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 60's-90's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
How sensitive is this character?
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Pacific NW
City? Yes
City: -

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual forms of death - dropped from large heights
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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