A review by ljjohnson8
The Four Last Things by Andrew Taylor

2.0

It appeared this novel was going to be about how a married couple - a clergywoman and a cop - deal with the most horrible tragedy possible. However, it introduced too many characters - the ranting woman in the church, the husband's godfather, the bishop - and made them seem significant, then gave them inexplicable things to do and no closure. This is one of three books involving the same families and geographical location over several generations, so perhaps Taylor was setting up things that would become clearer in the other books. But that just made this book the poorer. After a good beginning and a very interesting main character - the clergywoman - it veered off into other less compelling areas and had a very unsatisfactory conclusion.