Some don’t like the sparse, direct writing style, but I don’t mind. What I really like is the complexity of the plots, and how Reacher is figuring out parts from such little things.
I read a Patterson book this week, and it might matter that it turns out it was one of his co-authored ones aimed more at a female audience, but aside from the “I stared as his muscular arms”, which I can deal with, the problem I had was that there wasn’t that feeling of someone being very smart in the situation, like Reacher. There’s not that dense plotting and the intense thought process to arrive at conclusions. Sherlock Holmes was smart in the original stories, but basing his findings on nonsense like “His big head shows intelligence”, and then only showing the thinking at the end.
Anyone have a mystery series with a detective who’s as keen at figuring things out as Reacher?