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A review by melissa_who_reads
Um cadáver no convento by Catherine Aird
3.0
Wanted a break from WWII -- suddenly every book I am reading/listening to features WWII has a main plotline (in variations from London blitz to Holocaust survivors) and so I read this book featuring the murder of a nun in a convent.
It's light, but with a touch of humor that I find attractive. It's fun to watch small-town CID Detective Inspector CD Sloan make his way through a case, realizing that the nun in the cellar at the bottom of the staircase didn't fall there: she had been bashed on the head then thrown down the stairs.
Aird doesn't play quite "fair" -- you don't get all the clues in time to figure out who-dun-it before the big reveal, such as what was the backstory on the nun from West Laming that Sargent Gelden dug up and called in -- but it is entertaining and there are enough clues that the ending shouldn't come as a complete surprise.
It's light, but with a touch of humor that I find attractive. It's fun to watch small-town CID Detective Inspector CD Sloan make his way through a case, realizing that the nun in the cellar at the bottom of the staircase didn't fall there: she had been bashed on the head then thrown down the stairs.
Aird doesn't play quite "fair" -- you don't get all the clues in time to figure out who-dun-it before the big reveal, such as what was the backstory on the nun from West Laming that Sargent Gelden dug up and called in -- but it is entertaining and there are enough clues that the ending shouldn't come as a complete surprise.