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Tulppaanimurhat (2008)

by Daniëlle Hermans(Favorite Author)

3.08 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

9525637573 (ISBN13: 9789525637571)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bazar

review 1: What does the 17th century Dutch tulip speculation craze have to do with a murder in 21st century London? This is the enigma that confronts Alec Schoeller as he investigates the murder of his uncle Frank. The killing seems to tie into another murder that happened long ago in Holland. In 1632 innkeeper and tulip speculator Wouter Winckel was brutally murdered. His assailant was never found. Now, the past comes back to haunt Alec as more people around him begin to die.
review 2: I have been looking for a while for a really good history of the tulipmania phenomena in 17th Century Netherlands, because I find the psychology of speculative ventures a fascinating subject. I found The Tulip Virus at the library, and even though it was clearly a novel, I wanted to... more check it out for any information it could offer about that subject. I rarely give up on a book after I’ve gotten as far as page 90, but I felt the Tulip Virus warranted an exception to this rule. I probably only lasted this long because I don’t generally like murder mysteries, so I wanted to be as fair as possible and give it the benefit of the doubt. But eventually I had to institute my L.I.T.S. policy: It doesn’t have to be literature, but “Life Is Too Short” to read bad books. The writing was really mediocre and I couldn’t (or didn’t care enough) to follow the threads of the story trying to weave in the political and religious conflicts of the 17th century in that part of the world, although ordinarily I enjoy those subjects. It was just such a hodgepodge of odd characters, bad dialogue, dumb mystery clues, and awkward historical references, that it became not worth the effort. Perhaps those with more taste for murder mysteries would find this more tolerable, but it was not for me. less

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