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My First Murder (1993)

by Leena Lehtolainen(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

AmazonCrossing

series

Maria Kallio

review 1: Typical murder mystery. When I read the reviews I thought the book would be a lot better than it was. The book does keep you guessing who the murderer is. The lead character is likeable and considering this is a series of books that's a good thing. The book focuses on Detective Maria Kallio's first murder case. She is also one of the only female detective's on the force. The scenery is unique and beautiful especially if you are not familiar with Finland. I think the writer was trying to hard to be clever but some things may have been lost in translation as this book was/is originally released by a Finnish author and was translated into English. I think this would be a quick beach read.
review 2: My very first thought for this review is that if you are the kind ... moreof person who is able to easily participate in gossip and life-chatter, you will enjoy this book. Otherwise, it's not anything you should think of picking up. There was a lot of reflection on the main character's past that had nothing at all to do with what was happening with the murder case and there were so many characters that there actually has to be a character chart at the back of the book. I applaud someone wanting to take a large group of people and make them suspects in a murder mystery, but there's no mystery if you can't figure out what is going on. I think the only thing I got out of this book was that I knew what the murder weapon was and how it was discovered. I read to the end and I know who is guilty, but I'm still not very sure how this all came to be, because of all of the extra reminiscing and irrelevant jumble that were the beefy portions of the book. If all of the unnecessary chatter was edited from the story, I would have to say this would be a very short book indeed, but might be a good mystery. less

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