A review by mycouscous
Darling Jim by Christian Mørk

4.0

Darling Jim sucked me in from the get-go. It starts off with a bang, pulling the reader into the gruesome aftermath at a murder scene. Then the novel grabs hold even more tightly, presenting the diary of one of the murdered women. It's fascinating, suspenseful, and another thriller that didn't pander. (I'm loving that I'm finding these gems in a genre at which I often scoff.) My only qualms are that the voice of the diary entries didn't feel real at times, being too calm and collected to have been written by an imprisoned woman who was confronting death. The brief foray out into the hills at the end also threw me off, but not enough so as to make the whole book lose its impact or momentum. Very enjoyable stuff...if you can call murder enjoyable.