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The Spook Lights Affair (2013)

by Marcia Muller(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0765331756 (ISBN13: 9780765331755)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Forge Books

series

A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

review 1: Sabina Carpenter has been hired to keep an eye on a young debutante who her parents suspect is carrying on a dalliance with an unsuitable young man. While at a party, the girl appears to commit suicide and Sabina must work on clearing her name and restoring her reputation.Meanwhile, John Quincannon is attempting to find burglars who robbed Wells, Fargo so he can collect a $3000 reward. Towards the end, the two detectives find that their cases intersect.Unfortunately, that does not mean that they work together. I think the book is at its best when Sabina and John are in the same room, but that only happens for 20 pages or so. I'm guessing due to how the authors are writing the novel. Because they are never together, their dynamic is never quite fleshed out.I may be don... moree with this series. It's lacking a sparkle that other books have and there's too many books I want to read and not enough free time during the day.
review 2: I didn't do a full review for this one on my blog because I didn't feel that that many people would be interested in it. This was an enjoyable mystery read. I really did like the fake or not Sherlock Holmes character, he was kind of fun. The main characters were okay and the mystery was okay as well. I thought it was a cool idea to have two mysteries intertwine to become one. I just felt that there wasn't the fun of being left enough clues for the reader to try and solve the mystery themselves. It just made out these two detectives to be so smart and sleuthy that they were able to figure out the culprits and cause of the mystery from really nothing. One of the things I like about mysteries is trying to figure out who-done-it and my own, and it's not as fun to do that when the culprit really comes out of left field and there was no way that the reader would have been able to figure it out. Of course I could just be stupid and all the clues could have been right there in front of me. So this was just an okay read. I was lied to about the ghosts. There were no ghosts and that made me sad. One reason I picked up this book was because I thought there would be ghosts. I don't know if I'll read other books in this series like thing, I could, but it probably won't be top priority. Enough of me rambling.BOOKCITEMENT LEVEL 3/5I was lied to about the ghosts. The ghosts do not exist (in this book anyway, I don't know about real life :o) less

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