A review by colleenaf
Beast In View by Margaret Millar

3.0

Bought it entirely on a whim after falling in love with the original cover. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42080330@N03/4257767758/ 75 cents on ebay later and it was MINE! Unfortunately when it arrived from ebay it was a horrible 80's painting instead of a woman starring blandly out a window with a half smirk like she has gas and not some horrible problem/secret. (Well I guess if the gas is bad enough that COULD count, but still, not exactly the thriller I was hoping for.) If I had to give stars for the writing in this book it would be a five and a half. I would draw an extra star on my monitor. Margaret Millar is the kind of writer who has this brilliance moments that make you stop reading forward and instead wade back and forth in a single sentence. Really powerful. But unfortunately the mystery wasn't really much of one, and the romance side story came so out of no where I was just confused I had fallen asleep and missed thirty pages somewhere. Was surprised since it had won so many awards, but after reading this I'm going to hunt down a few more of Millar's books...and horrible covers...and give them a chance.