kateduv 's review for:

The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

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I've enjoyed previous titles in this series but I'm ditching this one. What is it with Susan Hill and depressing, terminal medical conditions? So far, characters in this series have suffered and died from CJD, cancer, brain tumour, and massive heart attack. The subject of euthanasia occupied a significant strand in a previous book but was at least subtly rendered in that one. It surfaces again early on in The Betrayal of Trust by way of a character suffering from Motor Neurone Disease and this time it's clearly going to be pounded with a sledgehammer.  The twin sister of Simon Serailler, the detective, is a GP and thus the portal to all of this misery. By definition a murder mystery deals in death but as a reader I don't need all these extra side-servings of it. I've scanned other reviews and gathered from them that other characters in this book, whom I haven't yet met, suffer from dementia and Parkinson's disease. Is Susan Hill working her way through a medical dictionary? Many other reviews also mention that the mystery is unsatisfying. So I'm done!