The Pallbearers

excellently paced, believable characters, very good action - we need more like this ( )

I was pleased and surprised when I saw this book at the library, I didn't know that there was a new Shane Scully novel out. As I said, it was good, but not great. For me, it seemed to be missing something.

The Plot was really good. Scully found out that the one man who took care of him as a child had killed himself. The guy wanted Scully and 5 other people to be his pallbearers. As the six met, they understood that they were hand picked special. As the six of them looked in to Pop's death, and couldn't believe that he killed himself. The six of them decided that they'd look into Pop's death. If he was murdered, they'd have to figure out who did it and why, and that person would pay.

That's all I really want to say about the plot. I don't want to give to much of it away. I did like the fact that we were able to see Scully's past, and how he changed from an angry, bitter child to the man he is today. I also liked how the reader is able to get to know the other pallbearers, and see how they turned out. I really liked the character of Jack.

The writing was good as usual. Cannell is able to put us with Scully in that everything he does. Cannell is very good at that.

The downsides is that it just felt like The Pallbearers was missing something. It hard to say, but it just felt empty. I didn't like how it ended.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad read, but just not one of my favorites ( )