Capitol Betrayal: A Novel (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I have read all the Ben Kincaid books and liked this one the least. The spontaneous trial was a great idea but it dragged on forever. I was glad when the action switched to Shamus. The book could have been very exciting if the trial was more succinct and moved along. For example, after the blackout I thought Ben was going to just drone on forever and never reveal what he figured out. I would not have finished the book if I had not read all of the Kincaid series. With his final Ben Kincaid novel, William Bernhardt does a fantastic job of weaving an intricate and well told tale while still maintaining the wonderful personalities of his continuing characters. This was not just icing on a wonderful cake it was a full and robust final course in a fabulous banquet of relevant and exciting individual courses, eighteen in all. I will miss Ben and his colleagues, but I look forward for a new banquet to come as well as those individual feasts that Bernhardt has served up before in his none-Kincaid works. I had the pleasure of attending Mr. Bernhardt's Level Two workshop in Honolulu this year and can attest to his ability to effectively share the skills that are so evident in his work to those of us who are striving to share our own visions in print. He puts an enormous amount of effort into his work to make it look effortless and succeeds admirably.
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