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A review by mojoshivers
Walk the Wire by David Baldacci
5.0
Great story. This novel was almost Christie-esque—very Murder on the Orient Express. But instead of multiple murders with the same motive, this was multiple mysteries with almost no bearing to each other muddling up the solution to each of them.
With mysteries the reader’s natural inclination is to think every clue is connected to the “bigger story,” that there’s some grand solution that ties all the twists together. But this book with its two military cover-ups, and multiple staged suicides and murders just goes to show you how delightfully twisted a book can be when you have three unrelated cases all happening in the span of a week’s time.
I thought for sure I was going to get this madcap explanation to how it all ties together, but the fact they didn’t tie actually made for a better novel. It was a great twist and absolutely fooled, which is all I ever ask of a mystery. I want to be stumped and then still have the solution be obvious in hindsight.
I also liked having everyone’s favorite tag team of government assassins provide back-up. Now all we need is to bring the best CID investigator John Puller and the unflappable National Park Ranger and we’ll have the Baldacci dream team assembled in one place.
With mysteries the reader’s natural inclination is to think every clue is connected to the “bigger story,” that there’s some grand solution that ties all the twists together. But this book with its two military cover-ups, and multiple staged suicides and murders just goes to show you how delightfully twisted a book can be when you have three unrelated cases all happening in the span of a week’s time.
I thought for sure I was going to get this madcap explanation to how it all ties together, but the fact they didn’t tie actually made for a better novel. It was a great twist and absolutely fooled, which is all I ever ask of a mystery. I want to be stumped and then still have the solution be obvious in hindsight.
I also liked having everyone’s favorite tag team of government assassins provide back-up. Now all we need is to bring the best CID investigator John Puller and the unflappable National Park Ranger and we’ll have the Baldacci dream team assembled in one place.