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Death At The Alma Mater (2010)

by G.M. Malliet(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0738719676 (ISBN13: 9780738719672)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Midnight Ink

series

A St. Just Mystery

review 1: Disappointing. I liked her other book, Death and the Lit Chick, much better. In this one, the murder happens too early on - before I had even straightened out who was whom - and the characters themselves turned out to be pretty underdeveloped. I didn't much care about any of them. The solution bordered on preposterous in this one, and it was also a little unfair, as the detective knew things that the reader was never privy to. I like the detective character overall, and I'd like to read more mysteries which involve him, but Malliet needs to step up her game.
review 2: Detective Chief Inspector St. Just must solve the murder of a beautiful socialite at a reunion of wealthy graduates from St Michael's College in Cambridge. The puzzle is solved in the final ch... moreapter, when St. Just assembles the suspects in the lounge (comme Poirot!) and proceeds to pinpoint the murderer while explaining his rather improbable modus operandi. I love Malliet's writing, with its wry humour and atmospheric settings. less

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