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The Inconvenient Corpse: A Grace Cassidy Mystery (2000)

by Jackie King(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

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review 1: Reading fiction require a certain "suspension of disbelief", and maybe I have an excess of skepticism and am too demanding, but I have enjoyed too much fiction for me not to feel that there are a lot of writers who can move me to an accepting state of disbelief better than this book has done. I THINK this may have been a first novel, in which case I blame the writer a bit but the editor more.I did not last long. The opening page was great---victim appears in the first sentence. It went downhill from there. The murder occurs in a B&B, and the guests are gathered together by the police for questioning. The officer asks them if anyone knew the victim. A big deal is made over the identity of the victim, not unreasonably. A fair amount of time is taken to question the guests, ... moreand then we are told the police are saving the B&B owners for last. Excuse me, but wouldn't the police question the OWNERS first, since as both the owners and as local inhabitants they are the most likely to know the victim? OK, I'll give the author one pass. I pursued things a bit further, but when I was told that the name of one of the suites was the John Stuart Mills room (It's MILL,dummy!Google it, if your education was that deficient.), the owner of the B&B was drawn as clunkily obnoxious, and the soon-to-be-ex-husband is nasty past the point of credibility, I decided to move on to something else. Julia Spencer-Fleming beckons....
review 2: I purchased this book because I liked the idea of a bed and breakfast murder with eccentric characters. Unfortunately it didn't live up to my expectations. I don't like giving bad reviews and it wasn't completely horrible, but I almost didn't finish it. Instead of being lovably quirky, some of the characters just came off as weird. For instance, a guy who lived in the basement was writing a book and he would pin his notes to his clothes so he wouldn't lose them. And parts of the story seemed unnecessary, like the situation with Grace's husband and all the guests having a connection to the same company. I'm sorry, but I can't recommend this book to anyone. less

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