Books like Exit Wounds

Right on the cover, this book says it is a “Novel of Suspense and Mystery.” The only mystery I uncovered is the mystery of why this book was ever published. The book starts off good for a suspense story. A murder. But the Sheriff doesn’t get her first clue in the case until page 260. The whole rest of the time she’s involved in a bunch of meaningless subplots that don’t add to the story, and are marginally resolved. Finally, about 20 pages from the end of the book, Jance realized that she had better wrap things up, so a whirlwind of activity unearths countless clues that lead to the actual killer, who commits suicide in an attempt to relieve the state budgetary problems that would have arisen from a long, drawn out trial.