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Before The Poison (2011)

by Peter Robinson(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1444704834 (ISBN13: 9781444704839)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

review 1: I,ve been watching the Detective Inspector Banks series on television. The reviews could have been better but I quite liked the series so I was looking forward to reading the novels, so much so that I have downloaded 17 of them in anticipation. I picked this novel at random fr5om the list before discovering that it is one of the few novels Peter Robinson has written which are unrelated to the Detective Inspector Banks series. Being a writer myself I know that you can't please everyone, and if you try you just become a crazy person, but I wasn't very impressed with this novel. It started with a hanging for murder, and the main character, for no apparent reason, decided to prove her innocence but never did. I do hope the other sixteen novels are more to my li... moreking.
review 2: I won't lie - I missed Banks. It's so comfortable having him at the centre of Robinson's mysteries that you almost resent the effort of figuring out the stranger (especially since this is a first-person novel, so there are the added complexities of whether the narrator is reliable or not). Nonetheless I enjoyed following along with this tale, and found it pleasantly unpredictable. At first it almost looked like a "cozy", with a self-contained mystery buried in the past of a house with a nasty secret. The landscape broadened out considerably though, as the narrator (recovering from grief) also found his way back to a broader life. Amidst the horrors of past, irremediable intolerances, then, the apparently irrelevant romance for the central character signifies hope for the future. On to the "keeper" shelf it goes. less

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