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Title: Jitterbug by Loren D. Estleman, Garrick Hagon ISBN: 0-7927-2264-7 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Estleman's my tour guide/historian
Comment: My mother was in high school just outside of Detroit during the war years and I've heard her stories often. I enjoyed Estleman telling me more about what was going on there when she was young.

Rating: 4
Summary: Vivid descriptions, fun story
Comment: i liked this book a lot for the atmosphere and the serial killer, but unfortunately his capture is sewed up too soon and simply for me. Contrary to what one reviewer has said, I think the cops were portrayed rather well. I was pleased to discover yet another very competent and creative detective novelist.

Rating: 4
Summary: Cynicism and cynical characters abound.
Comment: It's the 1940's, the country's at war, most of the young healthy men of Detroit have left to fight, and there is a serial killer loose in the city. Enter four jaw busting, foul mouthed middle aged cops, teamed to find the killer. (These guys are definitely not the Untouchables)

The serial killer is not the main character and the reader knows who he is from the beginning so there is little mystery. The investigation is a vehicle for meeting the characters and presenting 1940's Detroit, a city of corruption and bigotry. The book is populated with sarcastic and cynical characters and description is usually sarcastic and cynical. Historical characters, such as Henry Ford and FDR, are portrayed unsympathetically. In contrast to the rough characterizations, though, are the compassionate portrayal of the two young black men, Dwight and Earl.

I found this a book that held my attention all the way through. The characters seemed real, although, for the most part, unlikable and the story successfully casts a rather somber mood.