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A review by estherscholes
Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham
3.0
This is my first read of a Mark Billingham book and I chose this one because is a stand alone book instead of part of a series.
It’s a good crime novel, about a group of people who meet on a foreign holiday (where a girl goes missing), and then decide to meet up again back in England to get to know each other better. It’s well-paced and fairly formulaic in its unfolding of the events, including great moments of tension in the reveal. Where it didn’t grab me was the unlikability of the main characters - I didn’t really want to know more about any of them or understand what was drawing them to each other at all - and that I could see pretty early what the twist was going to be. Often at the end of a mystery novel, I want to go back and read it all again to spot the clues and patterns afresh, but this one felt like a relief to get to the end of.
It’s a good crime novel, about a group of people who meet on a foreign holiday (where a girl goes missing), and then decide to meet up again back in England to get to know each other better. It’s well-paced and fairly formulaic in its unfolding of the events, including great moments of tension in the reveal. Where it didn’t grab me was the unlikability of the main characters - I didn’t really want to know more about any of them or understand what was drawing them to each other at all - and that I could see pretty early what the twist was going to be. Often at the end of a mystery novel, I want to go back and read it all again to spot the clues and patterns afresh, but this one felt like a relief to get to the end of.