Was the writing bad? Was the writing trying too hard to be good/literary? “It’s gross to say ‘not enough pictures, right?” Not always!

(My most recent bail was The Fact Of A Body, and if I should take another run at it, let me know, but at the time I tried it, I found it strained, and had recently read others in the subgenre that I’d liked better.)

Tell me the last true-crime book YOU quit on! - SDB