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A review by sscs
The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones
3.0
This well-written, if depressing, book isn't so much a mystery as it is a collection of character studies of people with very sad lives. The sense of place is excellent, one never doubts that the author knows her characters and their setting. But there's something draggy about the whole book.
Late in the book, a character says that books always kill off the characters one most wants to get to know. I'm not sure if that was intended to be true here, but the murder victim seems to have bathed in the same hopelessness everyone else in the book has, so it isn't particularly true here.
This isn't a bad book, and I probably will come back to this author's work, but it is sorely missing the sense of hope that some of the best crime novels maintain in the face of everything.
Late in the book, a character says that books always kill off the characters one most wants to get to know. I'm not sure if that was intended to be true here, but the murder victim seems to have bathed in the same hopelessness everyone else in the book has, so it isn't particularly true here.
This isn't a bad book, and I probably will come back to this author's work, but it is sorely missing the sense of hope that some of the best crime novels maintain in the face of everything.