redfiona99

This book is almost an antidote to recent books where all the characters are terrible people and there is no-one to sympathise with. Instead, most of the characters are human, with bad points and good points and are treated with respect by the author. This makes the book more enjoyable to read as does the style of the writing, in particular, in the passage leading up to the second murder.

The mystery is well written, being neither too obvious, nor a Christie-style rabbit out of a hat ending.

The only fault I could find is that in a book full of vivid, interesting characters, the lead detective is the least vivid of them, with no strogn sense of his personality coming through.

All in all, a good read.

LibraryThing is giving the following as suggestions:

1. The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living: A Novel by Martin Clark
2. Southern Discomfort by Margaret Maron
3. Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
4. Slot Machines: A Pictorial History of the First 100 Years by Marshall Fey
5. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor by Mary Virginia Fox
6. Off the Record by James Pickles
7. Maybe Days : A Book for Children in Foster Care by Jennifer Wilgocki
8. So help me God : the Ten Commandments, judicial tyranny, and the battle for religious freedom by Roy S. Moore
9. Sean by Donna Kauffman
10. A Nation of Sheep by Andrew P. Napolitano

Most of which have very little to do with the book, but obviously I share a taste in murder mysteries with people who have more diverse tastes than I do.

No unsuggestions as there are not enough people with it in their Librarything libraries.