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Death Wore White (2008)

by Jim Kelly(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0141027517 (ISBN13: 9780141027517)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Penguin Books

series

DI Peter Shaw & DS George Valentine

review 1: I'm not even sure where to begin. The premise of this book is intriguing. A man is found dead in the driver's seat of a van during a blizzard. The van is stuck on a country road with cars backed up behind it and there are only two sets of footprints leading to and from the car: the dead man's and those of the driver of the car behind. After that, the book is such a mishmash of back story, parallel stories, and red herrings that it is really hard to keep anything straight. Then there are the exotic poisonous spiders. I gave this book three stars but two and a half would be more honest and accurate. While there is real potential in Inspector Shaw and his surly partner George Valentine, I'm not sure I could wade through another book that is so filled with...s... moretuff.
review 2: Slow reading. Starred reviews for this author from Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. Perhpas only Kirkus for this book. Police procedural - interesting enough main character, Peter Shaw, but very convoluted plot of murder on stranded coastal road with lots of characters, subplot of detective and new partner George Valentine, under a cloud involving detective Shaw's father. They unsuccessfully tried to get new info and open the old case; at end Peter will pursue on his own. Guess there's another book coming! less

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