Book Review – The Deposition

Overview

This story centers around Father Scott Nolan and his deposition¹ in relation to a lawsuit over a bank trust. The deposition, however, is a front for extracting information from Father Scott that might lead the bad guys to a witness who is under federal protection and slated to testify before a grand jury.

The “bad guys” are mostly lawyers, but so are a lot of the good guys (even Father Scott has a background as a lawyer).

Review

Overall, I enjoyed The Deposition, but it took a bit for me at the start to follow the players and the dialogue. It’s a novel where there is little action, but a lot of dialogue and the air of missing pieces being filled in as you move along. It might have helped me if I had read the previous four books in this fifth of the Mike Connolly Mystery Series; then I may have known more about some of the characters, particularly Mike Connolly. Mike’s part in the novel is mostly as a background character, but one of great significance.

I like the way dialogue is used as the primary way to tell the story (as opposed to having a narrator’s voice). It keeps you wondering what the real story is about (hint: it’s not about the lawsuit over the bank trust). Information is revealed a bit at a time, and the background action of the minor players in the story hints at the significance of the dialogue in the deposition¹. The ending is pretty good too, but I won’t spoil it for you.

Overall, I would give the book a three-and-a-half out of five star rating.