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Ponson Case

Freeman Wills Crofts and Dolores Gordon-Smith

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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed...

The Feral Detective

Jonathan Lethem

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Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles....

Emma (229 KP) rated Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) in Books

Apr 24, 2021

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

Patricia Cornwell | 2003 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

7.3

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I enjoyed this book, it's a pretty average detective novel. I enjoyed the pace of it, although not many murders happen in it. And I like the character Kay Scarpetta.
My only criticism would be for the best part of the middle if the story she seemed to focus too much on the science behind the evidence. There wasn't enough action.
Still an enjoyable read and I will read others by her

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The Red Barn: Adapted from the Novel La Main

Georges Simenon and David Hare

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Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not...

Gisell Middleton (189 KP) rated The Raven Tower in Books

May 22, 2019

The Raven Tower

Ann Leckie | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

5.0

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Reading, or listening (which I did), to this novel is like hearing an anecdote from an elderly relative who often goes off on tangents and digresses only to finally reach the point much later and seemingly at random. This story was a “detective mystery” that really, really wanted to incorporate gods somehow. The plot did not really come together until the very end and the rest of the novel was not compelling enough to really keep you interested throughout. The back and forth through time and different narrations, first and second person from the same narrator, was perplexing enough to be muddled and confusing for the majority of this seemingly endless novel. The more interesting details were never really addressed or explained and the richest characters remained as background noise. I wish this book had been better.