Killing Me Softly
This is a murder mystery centered
around PI Chauncey McFadden who finds himself hired to investigate by
two separate people to investigate two murders that have a startling
connection. He finds himself at opposite ends of society looking into
strip clubs and former Judges and gets involved with government
departments he didn't even know existed!
This book has proved quite difficult to
review. It is well written, it has a good, well thought out plot line
that comes to a satisfactory conclusion with no loose ends and the
culprit is one that I didn't work out mid way through the book. Which
by and large are the best things you can hope for in this type of book.
Now for the problems. The entire book is set in 1980, now I am not
against books not set in the current time line but I really failed to
see what was gained or lost by it - there weren't even any references to
the cool music I remember from my youth only bad fashion I would rather
forget! Secondly there was an awful lot of superfluous language, yes
long word I know but that sums up the book,now I know that Chauncey
plays a game with the owner of the news stand to use long words but the
book was littered with them and I even had to look a few up. Now this is
not blowing my own trumpet but I like to think that I
am reasonably well educated and having worked in the insurance industry
for over 20 years thought I was used to excessive prose but to be honest
it threw me. Finally the was a very odd attempt at humour. When I
first started reading the book I really wasn't sure if it was attempting
to be a comedy (and if it was it failed) but I finally decided that it
wasn't however that made the occasional comedy moments even
more bizarre, if you read it and meet the butler you will see what I
mean ... This book will never be one that you can breeze through in a
couple of hours but if you like to take your time on a book it could be
worth it.
If you can cope with the extravagant language then I would rate this at 4 of of 5 stars
Petra
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