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Reviewed by K T Bowes for Readers' Favorite
Daniel V. Meier, Jr. has created an engaging private detective, Frank Adams, to solve this wonderfully twisty homicide investigation. Having escaped his small-town upbringing, Frank is dragged back to the insular rural community by the death of his college professor and the desperate plea of an old school friend. Everyone else believes the plane crash was a terrible accident, including local law enforcement, but it’s up to Frank to prove it was an elaborate conspiracy to steal the professor’s cancer research. To Know Good and Evil presents the paradox between those who, in trying to do a good thing, inadvertently unleash great evil. At the heart of the novel is the professor’s cure for cancer, offering on the one hand incredible hope for many, and on the other, unimaginable prosperity for the few.
The main theme of To Know Good and Evil is inadequacy. I appreciated the detailed portrayal of each character’s traits and how Daniel V. Meier, Jr. strips away their humanity to reveal hideous personal agendas and deep-rooted conspiracies that have kept an entire community imprisoned. Each has a hunger to be better than the image they’ve created. Only Frank Adams, the main character, is aware of his strengths and shortcomings and operates on a balanced and rational plane. I loved how this created a maypole effect, with him as the central, resistant pillar of the action while the other characters churn around him. The plot is delightfully detailed and executed, with enough antagonists and anti-heroes to make the ending a complete surprise. The descriptions are precise, and I felt as though I was part of the heart-stopping action. I really enjoyed this novel. My favourite and most poignant quote that sums it up is, “That’s all we have to do in life, choose to destroy or to create.”
