Books like Trial

I'm going to be really, really kind and give this one 3 stars. It is right up there towards the top of the most over-written books I've read. When the narrator says that something is going to be boring and goes ahead and tells it anyway...not just once, but several times, I have to wonder who is editing this stuff. After going through page after page of boring testimony then we have to go through page after page of defense and then prosecutorial summation! Blah, Blah Blah!!So whatever happened to the discovery phase?? There was so much that was sprung in the trial that should have been brought out in discovery...I know it might have hurt the plot line, but other writers get around this issue.There was page after page of marriage, divorce, soul searching, etc., etc., that had NOTHING to do with the main plot. I kept hoping he'd tie it in somehow, but never did. Neither were the affairs.On top of all of this, this was a book that was SCREAMING to be told in first person. Instead of the author TELLING us what was his characters were thinking and doing, why not just let them say it for themselves??That was the bad. The good, and only redeeming thing about this book was that the story...minus all the meaningless crap...was fairly compelling.