A review by sarahsadiesmith
Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse

3.0

Historically mindfulness irritates  me. The whole wellness carry on to be fair makes me eye roll hard enough to bring on a minor seizure. Fuck fancy juices that cost £6 -8 and grains, bitter leaves and Herby yogurt drizzle. No. No. I want tea, I want toast and I'd like nobody to talk at me about the magically grounding power of earth. There's colours in a plug socket for that. I'm still very much in the wellness camp can all fuck off BUT this book was alright. I was entertained, it was pleasing company, it's not amazing but it's fun. The premise is a criminal lawyer whose main (and only) client is a terrible human mindfully murders said man because he wanted to preserve his time island/work free weekend with his daughter and left the hallion who was trying to flee in a hot car boot for said weekend. He subsequently mindfully runs the fellas remains through a woodchipper and effectively becomes the head of a criminal syndicate. He uses different mindful techniques to navigate the myriad of problems that entails - all of which he's learnt from his mindfulness coach. It's in the same sort of wheelhouse as the one hundred year old man climbed out of the window and disappeared sort of books. Daft, violent in a funny way, ridiculous but still logically plausible. And some of the mindfulness stuff didn't seem unreasonable to bear in mind outside of circumstances concerning organised crime and murder. It's just a decent fun read. Not taxing, not amazing, and not an awful way to spend a few hours - a bit of popcorn for the brain and cheaper than hippie juice 3/5.