You're good, Scott, damn good, so why....

I just finished the new Scott Turow, Ordinary Heroes. Wrote a review which probably will run in the Oregonian, but that's not official at this moment...now here is a very well done...nah, that sounds like something in the oven. Let's call it a solid and way more than merely competent novel with much to offer, much to ruminate over. Yet it bothers me no end how he uses an old and plainly unoriginal device to get the story rolling -- son looks through father's possessions after father's death and finds shocking information about the old man he had no idea existed. Then goes on "journey" to get to truth, decides to write book about dad in process. It gets worse - son finds father had written "manuscript" already, and presto! we have the old book-within-a-book-gimmick.
Other than that, it's pretty darn good.
But, if you get an advance, which is what I worked from, don't read the release from FSG - it's clear they hadn't read the book when they wrote it! All I will say is, there ain;t no courtroom drama in this one....