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A review by annelienvan
Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
3.0
Two parallel stories, told in alternating chapters: one set in 1983, the other in 2003. The first story tells about a murder about to happen and the people around it, the latter about a private detective reopening the case 20 years later when new DNA evidence surfaces.
An intriguing set-up: England in the eighties, nice athmosphere, well-written characters. Sadly, the story drowns in the large cast of characters and overly complicated plot. I had a hard time keeping them all apart. Better would have been to split the book in half, first the old story, then the new, or vice versa. It all started to jumble at the half-way point for me.
This could have been great if kept simpler, though the writing itself was really good.
An intriguing set-up: England in the eighties, nice athmosphere, well-written characters. Sadly, the story drowns in the large cast of characters and overly complicated plot. I had a hard time keeping them all apart. Better would have been to split the book in half, first the old story, then the new, or vice versa. It all started to jumble at the half-way point for me.
This could have been great if kept simpler, though the writing itself was really good.