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A review by mary846
Deeply Gravely Quite Anxiously Concerned by Peter Medeiros
3.0
I wanted to give this 2.5 stars. It doesn't really deserve 3 but it did keep me absorbed pretty much throughout - mainly because of the sheer awful manipulativeness of the main character.
The secret behind this dysfunctional family turned out to be unnecessarily and horribly - and rather unbelievably - awful and the whole story just suddenly seemed to peter out, without any final satisfying confrontation. And the less said about the ridiculous policing methods the better (although I can't help mentioning that staying in a murder victim's house seems quite bizarre, as well as the habit every copper has of telling suspects details of the case that should have stayed confidential!)
Barbara Havers is the best thing about these books, but she behaved rather ridiculously at times too.
Felt unsatisfied after listening to this. (Oh, and the narrator wasn't great either.)
The secret behind this dysfunctional family turned out to be unnecessarily and horribly - and rather unbelievably - awful and the whole story just suddenly seemed to peter out, without any final satisfying confrontation. And the less said about the ridiculous policing methods the better (although I can't help mentioning that staying in a murder victim's house seems quite bizarre, as well as the habit every copper has of telling suspects details of the case that should have stayed confidential!)
Barbara Havers is the best thing about these books, but she behaved rather ridiculously at times too.
Felt unsatisfied after listening to this. (Oh, and the narrator wasn't great either.)