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Newcomer
by Keigo Higashino
3.5 rounded up. Newcomer refers to the detective who is new in town and trying to solve the case of the murder of a forty-five-year-old divorced woman. If you like traditional, non-gory mysteries, you’ll like this story. In many detective novels, the cops have a grim, gritty disposition and possibly a drinking problem. Sergeant Kaga is downright friendly as he goes from shop to shop looking for small clues.
It turns out I’m not a huge fan of traditional, non-gory mysteries with affable detectives collecting evidence, but what made this novel not amazingly awesome to me was how many clichés there were. I’m sure it’s a function of translating from Japanese—I suspect that language also has clichés, but my guess is that they are different than those we English speakers sometimes use, and this translation abounds with them.
However, if you can ignore the clichés and like sweet (for a murder mystery) novels, you’ll enjoy Newcomer, which RELEASES NOVEMBER 20, 2018. Thanks so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to review this novel.
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It turns out I’m not a huge fan of traditional, non-gory mysteries with affable detectives collecting evidence, but what made this novel not amazingly awesome to me was how many clichés there were. I’m sure it’s a function of translating from Japanese—I suspect that language also has clichés, but my guess is that they are different than those we English speakers sometimes use, and this translation abounds with them.
However, if you can ignore the clichés and like sweet (for a murder mystery) novels, you’ll enjoy Newcomer, which RELEASES NOVEMBER 20, 2018. Thanks so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the opportunity to review this novel.
For more reviews, please visit: http://www.theresaalan.net/blog