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A review by cattytrona
Beast In View by Margaret Millar
3.0
Really solid mystery. Did exactly what I love in a detective novel, which is: giving me all the clues I need to solve everything, whilst being obscure enough in its solution that I don’t solve it until the reveal. Which allows for some fun hindsight detection, but also means the actual reading experience is suspenseful and you’re right there with the detectives. Plus bonus points for some of the clues not feeling like clues I guess because of their psychological character-building natures — good efficiency .
If I was a publisher and I wanted to be rich, I would republish this book, and some other Millars too, because I understand them to be similar in tone. But I would specifically publish them with charcoal/black covers with like a vague greyscale image or pictogram on it — in this case, probably a phone. And then I would make sure the title was in a sans serif font in some kind electric shade of colour. And then, the pièce de résistance, I would go for a byline like ‘gillian flynn meets agatha christie’ or ‘before gone girl there was…’ above the title. And then I’d stick it in a W H Smiths. And it wouldn’t be particularly accurate, but at least these books/this book is pretty good, and I think the fans would be satisfied.
If I was a publisher and I wanted to be rich, I would republish this book, and some other Millars too, because I understand them to be similar in tone. But I would specifically publish them with charcoal/black covers with like a vague greyscale image or pictogram on it — in this case, probably a phone. And then I would make sure the title was in a sans serif font in some kind electric shade of colour. And then, the pièce de résistance, I would go for a byline like ‘gillian flynn meets agatha christie’ or ‘before gone girl there was…’ above the title. And then I’d stick it in a W H Smiths. And it wouldn’t be particularly accurate, but at least these books/this book is pretty good, and I think the fans would be satisfied.