A full-page ad for a new crime thriller in today’s New York Times Book Review leads with this quote from a Publisher’s Weekly review:

“Michael Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today’s Dostoyevsky of crime literature . . . one of his finest works to date.”

[Boggle].

Some publicist out there actually thought that a quote in which the author is said to be no better than anyone else at writing books in a style completely unsuited to the genre is a compliment?

Note to self: Never hire that publicist.

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