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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2204 KP) rated A Case of Hometown Blues in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Mitch Malone has returned to his hometown to teach a seminar on investigative reporting. But that also means facing the ghosts of his past, including several tragic deaths. The murder of his high school crush forces him into facing things he's been running from for a long time. I enjoyed the mystery, which was very fast moving. I felt like the characters outside of Mitch could have used more development.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-case-of-hometown-blues-by-w.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Katie Niles (20 KP) rated The Silent Wife in Books

Jun 18, 2018

The Silent Wife

A.S.A. Harrison | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry

5.7

(6 Ratings)

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What I expected to be a riveting, exciting, thriller novel turned out to be a very slow, predictable, murder mystery of a scorned woman and wife. It was an alright read but it was hard to get through it and force myself to get to the end because it hardly kept my interest. Would I recommend it to a friend? Very doubtful. Would I read again? Negative. I do plan on giving the author another go around and I do plan on reading another book of the authors.

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Jemma Walsh (81 KP) rated Not Dead Enough (Roy Grace, #3) in Books

Sep 15, 2018

Addicted

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I’m slowly starting to get addicted to these books, I enjoyed Roy’s trip to Munich, I feel like after this trip he’s finally made up his mind about sandy and Cleo atlast!
Cannot wait to read the one that reveals what’s happened to sandy, the anticipation is killing me ha!

Love this murder mystery how can someone be in the same place twice... Roy and his copper nose will work it out

The characters are building up more and more as the books go one, it’s nice to understand Cleo and Glenn more.

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Erika (17788 KP) rated Cocaine Nights in Books

Jun 22, 2019

Cocaine Nights

J.G. Ballard | 1996 | Fiction & Poetry

5.0

(2 Ratings)

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I'm a huge Ballard fan, but this novel was hard to get through. The first part indicates that it's going to be a murder-mystery, with Charles Prentice, our main character, trying to prove that his brother didn't burn 5 people to death in a house.
Around 100 pages in, it peters out into another version of @High-Rise , only not as good. Though, while this was the case, the last 3 pages were strong, and when I reached the end, I almost wanted it to go on.

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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Murder from Scratch in Books

Dec 30, 2019

Murder from Scratch

Leslie Karst | 2019 | Mystery, Thriller

8.8

(6 Ratings)

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I received a copy of Murder From Scratch from Netgalley and the publisher.

I really enjoyed this book. My main issue is that all the food talk made me so hungry and as "issues" go that's not bad at all!

I really appreciate the writing of Evelyn. She's actually written as an adult with interests and not as a tall child who brings light to able-bodied folx.

I liked the mystery a lot. The way it was set up as an "obvious" suicide but a family member knows what's up? Definitely my thing!

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Fred (860 KP) rated Murder Mystery (2019) in Movies

Jul 20, 2019

Murder Mystery (2019)

2019 | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

7.0

(42 Ratings)

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A fun time, once it gets going

A comedy/mystery in the vein of Clue or Murder By Death, this film takes a while to get going. The jokes at the beginning are few & weak, but as it goes on, they get more plentiful & funnier. I found myself laughing out loud more than a few times. Everyone in the film is great & those who hate Adam Sandler will find him tolerable. The story is well enough & there's a pretty damn good car chase too. It's worth a watch once, maybe twice.