A review by kbruneau
Crime School by Carol O'Connell

2.0

My dad sent me a few of the mysteries in this series, and this one was the first I read. It might be the only one, since it was just okay. Honestly, at the beginning I actually disliked it. The prose is kind of bad in places (for example, in one paragraph between the use of pronouns and a shift in the narrative perspective, I couldn't figure out which character was being described) and rather repetitive. I kept reading, though, and the mystery plot itself was fairly interesting. I never felt very interested in the main character, though. These are called the "Kathy Mallory Mysteries", but in this book, she wasn't as compelling as her partner. Maybe that's not the case in the earlier novels?