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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
This novel is released on December 24, 2018
This was my first novel my Bleadel and to me, the mystery factor didn't wow me very much.
It had very intriguing storyline which is what made me want to read it, but while I was reading, I started losing interest about halfway through the novel. That being said, it was still very good. Detective Louise Rick is such an interesting character and I loved her persistence and how she never gave up on the case. It's very rare that we got a female detective in books and that's one thing that I liked about this novel. The fact that Louise was given a sort of small love life in the novel is very different to see in a mystery since usually the plot is simply focused on the murder. It's nice of Bleadel to do that for Louise!
I loved the plot of the novel but the ending was a not very good one. The killer was revealed simply out of the blue and personally, I think that it was not a very good twist. The reasoning as to why it was done was somewhat shocking since secrets were revealed and all the puzzle pieces came together.
I do think that it could have been a little more mystery based and the killer could've been a little more of a shocker. I would love to see how the relationship with Louise and Mik will work out in future novels.
Thank you to Hachette Book Group Canada and Grand Central Publishing for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel.
This was my first novel my Bleadel and to me, the mystery factor didn't wow me very much.
It had very intriguing storyline which is what made me want to read it, but while I was reading, I started losing interest about halfway through the novel. That being said, it was still very good. Detective Louise Rick is such an interesting character and I loved her persistence and how she never gave up on the case. It's very rare that we got a female detective in books and that's one thing that I liked about this novel. The fact that Louise was given a sort of small love life in the novel is very different to see in a mystery since usually the plot is simply focused on the murder. It's nice of Bleadel to do that for Louise!
I loved the plot of the novel but the ending was a not very good one. The killer was revealed simply out of the blue and personally, I think that it was not a very good twist. The reasoning as to why it was done was somewhat shocking since secrets were revealed and all the puzzle pieces came together.
I do think that it could have been a little more mystery based and the killer could've been a little more of a shocker. I would love to see how the relationship with Louise and Mik will work out in future novels.
Thank you to Hachette Book Group Canada and Grand Central Publishing for providing me with an advanced copy of this novel.
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Formulaic, boring and underdeveloped characters, would not recommend.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The story started off interesting enough with the murder of a 15 year old girl and the way she was murdered almost seemed as it if was an honor killing done by the family.BUt not everything is at it seems.Halfway through the book started to become a bit draggy,it started with a bang and then went at an extremely slow pace that it was a little hard to get to the end of the book.An okayosh read
Louise Rick is seconded to a mobile unit to investigate the death of a 15 year old girl who immigrated to Denmark from Jordan. Later the girl's best friend is also found murdered and then her sister disappears. I found this book odd. Despite almost immediately wondering if the original murder might be an honour killing, the coroner is not asked to determine whether or not she is a virgin. There is a second protagonist, a journalist called Camilla, whose function puzzled me, and who clearly had an enormous back story from a previous novel. Louise sleeps with the detective she is partnered with (yawn) and the ending with Anne and Aida was horrifying. Louise should lose her job for incompetence.
Louise Rick is investigating a murder. A teen girl (Samra) was found dead and it looks like it may have been an honor killing...but her father was clearly devastated when Samra's body was identified and her mom swears that her husband didn't harm her daughter. (Well, okay, he COULD do it, but he DIDN'T.) Then Samra's friend, the one who indirectly identified the body by telling police her friend was missing, was found murdered. Louise is unsure exactly who's telling the truth and who's to blame for Samra's murder (and for her friend's murder, if they're even connected).
This is apparently part of a series, but it's the first one I've read. In a lot of ways, it's similar to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (only without the financial journalism subplots). There's a mystery that seems nearly impossible to solve...until, of course, it IS solved.
To me, the most interesting part of the story dealt with honor killings. I love it when books can make me understand something, and this one did. There's also a part where Camilla (Louise's friend, who is also a newspaper reporter) is doing a series of articles on honor killings and her editor basically tells her to change that angle of the story because, essentially, it doesn't matter WHY it happens, it's wrong. And obviously it's wrong. But I think it's important to understand why something happens---not so much to condone it, but because if you understand a problem, it's easier to solve it. And while granted, I still don't 100% understand it, but I'm a lot closer now than I was before picking up this book.
I don't read many mysteries anymore, but this is a great example of a police procedural. I do enjoy reading about how murders are solved.
You can't tell people that their culture is wrong and barbaric. But if you can frame it differently, people are more likely to listen.
This is an incredibly interesting book and I definitely plan to seek out more of Sara Blaedel's mysteries.
This is apparently part of a series, but it's the first one I've read. In a lot of ways, it's similar to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (only without the financial journalism subplots). There's a mystery that seems nearly impossible to solve...until, of course, it IS solved.
To me, the most interesting part of the story dealt with honor killings. I love it when books can make me understand something, and this one did. There's also a part where Camilla (Louise's friend, who is also a newspaper reporter) is doing a series of articles on honor killings and her editor basically tells her to change that angle of the story because, essentially, it doesn't matter WHY it happens, it's wrong. And obviously it's wrong. But I think it's important to understand why something happens---not so much to condone it, but because if you understand a problem, it's easier to solve it. And while granted, I still don't 100% understand it, but I'm a lot closer now than I was before picking up this book.
I don't read many mysteries anymore, but this is a great example of a police procedural. I do enjoy reading about how murders are solved.
You can't tell people that their culture is wrong and barbaric. But if you can frame it differently, people are more likely to listen.
This is an incredibly interesting book and I definitely plan to seek out more of Sara Blaedel's mysteries.