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A review by squidbag
Murder Tightly Knit by Vannetta Chapman
3.0
Second verse, same as the first.
Not an entirely fair assessment, since the mystery was deeper and had more dimensions on this outing, and since re-visiting characters can either make you tired of them or make them more appealing, and Chapman's got a good grip on the latter; these people seem more like people this time out. New characters, however - people with tortured pasts and our first African-American character in the series - seem cartoonish still. It's clear that movie-of-the-week screenplays are lurking at the fringes of her imagination as she writes.
Still, the premise (exactly how many plausible murders can you have at an Amish fucking Village anyway?) stands firm, the story itself is very straightforward and has depth, and there's nothing broken about this book. I'm only critical because it's not exactly my cup of Simple Brew, and because these people pray just enough to keep me off-guard but interested.
Moving on...
Not an entirely fair assessment, since the mystery was deeper and had more dimensions on this outing, and since re-visiting characters can either make you tired of them or make them more appealing, and Chapman's got a good grip on the latter; these people seem more like people this time out. New characters, however - people with tortured pasts and our first African-American character in the series - seem cartoonish still. It's clear that movie-of-the-week screenplays are lurking at the fringes of her imagination as she writes.
Still, the premise (exactly how many plausible murders can you have at an Amish fucking Village anyway?) stands firm, the story itself is very straightforward and has depth, and there's nothing broken about this book. I'm only critical because it's not exactly my cup of Simple Brew, and because these people pray just enough to keep me off-guard but interested.
Moving on...