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Dear Crossing (2012)

by Marjorie Swift Doering(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1475151802 (ISBN13: 9781475151800)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Marjorie Doering

series

Ray Schiller Series

review 1: Fairly good book. It's a little inconsistent, which is frustrating. The opening chapter tells the story about a drunken washed-up cop who is thrown in the slammer to sober up. It begs the question, "which came first - the reality of washed-up drunken cops or the entertainment of washed-up drunken cops." So many books and movies and tv shows are about cops who are toward the end of their career, have become jaded, and hit the bottle too much to get through life. Their wives have left them and they are lonely. Ugh. The book got better after this opening because a murder happens. One that is quite gruesome. But then there are a lot of gruesome murders/deaths in this book. Why so many? Well, the end ties almost all of them together, and it makes sense. The inconsis... moretencies are really with the writing of the main character. At first he's a drunk. Then he doesn't drink that much and has self control. Sometimes he is a pain in the a**, other times he is a brilliant detective. His relationship with his estranged wife is all over the map and doesn't make sense in the end. There's a lot of convenient lies and pointing fingers at possible suspects. It kind of goes on and on. That being said, the story is fairly enjoyable. The relationship the main character builds with a detective in another city is very interesting and makes me want to read the next book in the series. I liked the two of them together. I don't like the title. I get it. But I don't like it.
review 2: There is always an element of apprehension when you buy a book. When you have "agreed" to read and review a book when you've only seen the front cover. Apprehension is a very English understatement. In it's favour was the genre - detective crime novel, but still with dread, I read a few paragraphs from the middle. Immediate, snap judgement was that this was going to be a comfortable read. perhaps too straightforward and too easy to second guess the whodunit character. Man was I wrong by a moon shot. Detective Schiller is an ordinary man struggling to make sense of an horrendous murder in a town which wants to keep it's business to itself. An intrigue which gets the reader asking questions that can't wait to be answered. Marjorie Swift-Doering's writing, especially the conversations, carries the reader though his pursuit of the killer at a pace. Entwined with camera shots of his own personal life. The plot is literally surprisingly complex. Love the fact that, despite a few perfectly understandable quaint Americanisms, this could have happened in my UK street! Detective Schiller's a guy I want to read more about. It's a quality read. In fact, having read the book, I can't wait for the next one. less

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