I had high hopes for Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. I'd read and liked his second book, The Ruins, a lot—particularly a really cool ending. Now I'll admit Simple Plan had potential; I was especially taken with some strangely behaving crows outside a crashed plane, but they did their bit and faded into the woodwork. Plan then quickly dwindled into your standard man-finds-money-man-kills-a-lot-of-people-to-keep-money-man's-daughter-is-retarded-after-a-swimming-accident tale. I remained unimpressed.
