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Trick Of The Dark (2011)

by Val McDermid(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1932859829 (ISBN13: 9781932859829)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bywater Books

review 1: Somewhat disappointing. It is mainly a lesbian love story which I find really boring. Not so much the lesbian bit but the fact that it is a tedious and badly-written love story. The characters are acting like love sick adolescents with no moral compass. There is not much logic in the whole thing and not much mystery. At one point without any explanation the woman investigating these murders suddenly protects another woman whom she is pretty sure is a serial killer. Hah? Why? If I wanted to read a boring love story this could be the book to turn to but I didn't want that. I expected a great mystery and did not get one!
review 2: For me, a Val Mcdermid novel is a treat to be savoured which is why I often read them long after publication (the exception being t... morehe "Tony Hill" books which I can't stop myself from devouring in an instant!). The Hardback version of this has been sat on my shelf for a while (and boy its a good looking book) A couple of days ago I decided it was time and dived in. I tend to really enjoy Ms McDermid's stand alone novels (A Place of Execution and The Distant Echo being some of the best crime fiction I've ever read) and it was no different here. Charlie Flint, currently suspended psychiatric profiler, receives a package in the post with clippings about a murder that has taken place at her old College in Oxford. Her investigation into who sent this to her, and ultimately into the murder itself, creates the basis for this story. Well executed as ever, Val Mcdermid is the queen of misdirection whilst always in actuality sending you completely the right way if only you can get your brain in gear. Her characters are real and so are the places they inhabit. This book was even more fun for me as I live just outside Oxford, and atmospherically she has got it spot on. As usual you get all the information you need to know what the truth actually is long before the end and yet still the rug gets pulled out from underneath you. Whilst this was not my favourite of her novels, that doesnt detract from the fact that this is Crime fiction at its best. less

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