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A review by tensy
Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
2.0
[spoilers]I picked this book up from a recommendation in the Library Journal. Apparently, Higashino's earlier book garnered many good reviews. I did not read that book. Unfortunately, this book was so slow and the mystery to the crime was so easily discovered that it took all I had to finish the audio. Throughout the narration, I felt like Tattoo in Fantasy Island screaming, "Da flowers, Da flowers" you idiots! It does not take a physics professor (Galileo) to figure this one out.
I keep saying I am giving up on mysteries (I have the same problem with police procedurals on TV)because the clues to resolving the crime are so easily detectible. My family rightly hates it when I yell out who done it in the first 15 minutes ;-). It could be my background in law, but I think it is just that authors aren't creative enough. The best ones are, and I am going to stick to those special few from now on. I ask for forgiveness from my brother-in-law who is a Goodreads mystery writer [a:Joel Goldman|248807|Joel Goldman|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1360180724p2/248807.jpg], but we have argued this topic out over many years.
Some people like to feel like they figured the crime out early, but personally, I like to reach the end and feel like I have been truly surprised by the resolution. Just not here.
I keep saying I am giving up on mysteries (I have the same problem with police procedurals on TV)because the clues to resolving the crime are so easily detectible. My family rightly hates it when I yell out who done it in the first 15 minutes ;-). It could be my background in law, but I think it is just that authors aren't creative enough. The best ones are, and I am going to stick to those special few from now on. I ask for forgiveness from my brother-in-law who is a Goodreads mystery writer [a:Joel Goldman|248807|Joel Goldman|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1360180724p2/248807.jpg], but we have argued this topic out over many years.
Some people like to feel like they figured the crime out early, but personally, I like to reach the end and feel like I have been truly surprised by the resolution. Just not here.