A review by claudia_is_reading
The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons

3.0

Gritty and well written, this is not as much a mystery as the events surrounding one and the follow-up of it. The police interrogations, the papers trying to get a headline, the social issues of police corruption, youth isolation and gangs mentality from about half a century ago.

There is not much of a doubt about the guilty of the crime, so there is no sense of urgency to the story and... it really didn't get me invested in any of the characters, not even the supposedly good ones.

It's interesting, but not a page-turner.