Baron Brady

I didn’t want to like D by Baron Brady. I read the first several chapters and thought with a certain amount of disdain that it was simply a whodunit, the kind of story I’ve written myself. Pull Sam Spade into the present, photoshop a cell phone into his hand, and he becomes Birk Dillinger our dashing protagonist. Birk is a fun character to write, a hard drinking, hard charging private eye. Unfortunately, he’s not a fun character to read. His dialogue is too simple, his character too much of a cliché.