A review by sunnid
Crime School by Carol O'Connell

2.0

I am hooked on Carol O'Connell and the Mallory series. I was disappointed with this one, however. I thought it went too overboard with all the gore and could have used more of the "sentimental" character development of her previous novels. The grisly descriptions became repetitive and dull, as well as nauseating. I feel that it was being used to fill and push the edge -- the shock factor. I also thought some things were stretched to the implausible...the idea of this book group and some of Charles' deductive abilities were not believable. I knew it would be hard to continue with Mallory after the last novel, it's tricky to keep her the primary mystery. But I'm hoping O'Connell can do it.