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Title: Framed

Author: Scott Strosahl

Narrator: Tom Pile

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-16-13

Publisher: Strobie Creative Services, LLC

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a hostage situation at a small Midwest bank results in no suspects, two Des Moines police officers learn that things are never what they appear to be, even when all the evidence points to one suspect - until it points to another.

Members Reviews:

This Book Spooked Me...

Not in a horror novel type of way, but in the realization that this plot could very well happen in real life and probably has/does. While I do enjoy a good tale of terror, I have found that it's the everyday things that aren't intended to be scary that can be the most frightening of all!

FRAMEDis for me first a look at what can happen when law enforcement is too quick to pass judgement and becomes so enamored of a quick resolution that they become blinded to any other possibilities that there may be. Not with in any way a malicious or destructive intent, just a true desire to close a case and get their man so that any strong nudge in a direction focuses them solely on that and they become lost along the way.

It is second a look at how law enforcement can discover their error in judgement, make an honest attempt to correct it yet still get the answer wrong which results (spoiler coming next) in 2 men being successfully framed, convicted and sentenced for a crime they did not commit.

The story was well written with few errors that I discovered, but I did subtract 1 star because I had figured out a major part of the ending long before the book closed (one half of who the true criminals were) and because that ending to me felt very abrupt, kind of like here it comes- WHAM! I will be looking for more from this author in the future.

Not well researched

Midland Savings, situated in Des Moines, is robbed of 1.2 million while a group of customers is held hostage. Kevin Peters, an electrician working in the bank at the time of the robbery, finds himself framed for the crime.

I choose this book because of the premise of an innocent person finding themselves convicted of a crime seems totally plausible to me. Unfortunately, while the author has a good story he has not done enough research to make it believable for me. There is no mention of the FBI even though that agency always investigates bank robberies working with local authorities.

In one scene, the local police who are investigating are at the bank five days after it was robbed and there was plywood on the window and broken glass inside. The FDIC would not allow a bank to stay closed that long as it would erode confidence in the bank and in the system.

While the writing is okay, the novel ended up being about bumbling cops who can jail people at will - true horror that undoubtedly happens. When 1.2 million is missing, the authorities do not stop looking for it just because a conviction has occurred making the denouement less believable in reality than the reader is led to believe.

Had the author allowed reality to intrude and incorporated it into the story, he may have had a good book. 2.5 stars

Novel Idea

An Iowa bank is robbed in broad daylight of $1,200,000.00. Thirty plus hostages are in the bank at the time, none of whom can give a cohesive story of exactly what happened or a good description of the robber. The police procedures that follow place probable guilt on two suspects, both of whom steadfastly declare their innocence. Neither will confess for a lighter sentence nor plea bargain with the prosecutor's office.

The story that unfolds is well thought out and well written.