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Too Many Murders (2009)

by Colleen McCullough(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439177473 (ISBN13: 9781439177471)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

series

Carmine Delmonico

review 1: I love Colleen McCullough's "The Thorn Birds" and her historical novels, dealing with Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and Anthony, but I really disliked this mystery novel. I had no desire to read about Detective Carmine and his wife Desdemona or even liked this mystery story at all. Maybe it was just this book in her mystery series, that was the problem. I'm not sure, if I even want to attempt another book in this series.
review 2: Hmm, well, I’m not very sure about this book. If you’re an avid reader, I think you may finish it without any regrets. But if you are one of those people, who could bear to read only the best of the best, I would not recommend this to you. Don’t know if it’s me or the author, but the writing’s a bit dull. I’m not saying that... more the circumstances were mediocre, which, on the contrary, were quite extraordinary if you ask me, but the descriptions of them, were. How else, would a crime-mystery novel be written, you would ask me. Well, I concede, an appropriate style of writing it was, then. There’s humour too, quite a lot after the first half, by which time, I think everything gets quite interesting. There’s a terribly funny incident in the book involving an “I could kiss you” moment. I just shut the book and laughed my lungs out. But the book is seriously censored in all aspects except the language. It’s conservative to the core, in terms of the description of events (to me of course, I don’t know what you’d think). I wish the writer dared to be more adventurous. This book definitely needs more spicing up, yes, of that, I’m sure. My favourite quote would be, “Colloquialisms are wonderful. They prove that English is a living language, always moving on. ”Another possible downfall, I say possible because some of you may see it as a plus point, is that we are not offered much insight into the officer’s thinking process, a consequence of being written in third person, I guess. It does help to build up the mystery, but sometimes, it’s a bit annoying when we’re left thinking ‘where’s he going with this’ or at other times, ‘where did that come from?’ But, on the whole, some things are better left unsaid, I guess.What I love about this book is that out of the blue, from a dreary read (debatable), the author just startles us with a play at our emotions, like the beautiful description of a baby on his father’s lap or the sensual feeling of a wife’s head resting on the arm while driving a car. I had never thought about such things and I’m glad that the author could give me such warm, personal experiences amidst such chaotic events.Truth be said, I’m not much impressed by the mystery, because of the sheer fact that most of the details leading to the conclusion were hidden from us (the nosy readers), thereby not allowing us to have a one on one with the protagonist. And the ones that were exposed gave subtle hints, but pointed fingers everywhere. On that I give points to the author for keeping us thoroughly confused, guessing and re-guessing. It’s a good read, not a great one mind you, but enough to give you three days of sleepless ‘clueing for looks’. Good Luck. less

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