{"id":17650,"date":"2022-12-20T19:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:34:42","slug":"dangerous-behavior-by-walter-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17650","title":{"rendered":"‘Dangerous Behavior,’ by Walter Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I almost liked this book very much<\/strong>. In the end I wasn\u2019t quite satisfied, but there\u2019s a lot to be said for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hero of Dangerous Behavior<\/a><\/em> (first volume in a series) is Dr. David Rothberg, who has recently taken a job as a psychological counselor at an upstate New York prison, for various complicated personal reasons. His first challenge is a big one \u2013 he\u2019s supposed to do an evaluation for a parole recommendation on Victor Janko, \u201cthe baby carriage killer.\u201d This man was convicted years ago of murdering a young woman while her baby daughter watched. Victor doesn\u2019t seem like the type to commit such a crime \u2013 but then, murderers often don\u2019t. Is he a very devious psychopath, or could he possibly be genuinely innocent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complicating the evaluation are Victor\u2019s manipulative murder-groupie girlfriend, and a sadistic prison guard whom David knows to be abusing Victor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to say that Dangerous Behavior<\/em> did a great job of keeping my interest. I actually sat up late to finish this book, something I don\u2019t often do at my age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I thought the plotting was a little forced; characters sometimes seemed to break character in order to make dramatic points happen. Also, the climax was surprisingly understated. In addition, the portrayal of a Catholic priest hinted at an authorial attitude that usually bodes ill for me as a reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll pick the sequel up or not. Nevertheless, I have to admit that Dangerous Behavior<\/em> was a good read overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost liked this book very much. In the end I wasn\u2019t quite satisfied, but there\u2019s a lot to be said for it. The hero of Dangerous Behavior (first volume in a series) is Dr. David Rothberg, who has recently taken a job as a psychological counselor at an upstate New York prison, for various … Continue reading ‘Dangerous Behavior,’ by Walter Marks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[4474,4473,4472],"class_list":["post-17650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-dangerous-behavior","tag-david-rothberg","tag-walter-marks"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17651,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17650\/revisions\/17651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}