I read somewhere recently that if one wanted good books to read, just read something by Howard Fast. A couple of weeks later, Redemption by Fast turned up in my Little Free Library so I pulled it out and read it. It didn't do much for me. It was a murder mystery of sorts - not the kind of book I usually read. It seemed more like a Harlequin mystery - there wasn't much meat to it. It was kind of a page turner but in a sappy sense. The main woman character was way too "perfect." Some of the details seemed a little far-fetched, like it was a little too convenient that the gun in the crime belonged to the professor who saved Miss Perfect from committing suicide and whose ex-husband was killed by said gun. All this while Professor and MP were living together. It seemed like too simple of a plot. Maybe it's time to read Fast's An Independent Woman, a book of his for which he is quite famous.
