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Murder of a Lover
by Faith Martin
medium-paced
I really enjoy this series but this one irritated me quite a bit. It’s repetitive and the TSTL moment made me furious. Additionally, an annoying subplot is getting dragged out unnecessarily.
Hillary’s second case in the cold case unit is a ten year old murder. A college student is murdered and Hillary can’t find anyone with a clear motive. Several red herrings are offered up but none of them seem to rise to a case of an impassioned spur of the moment murder. Hillary is also distracted by the stalker she’s suddenly got on her tail. This is one of my irritations. In at least the last three books we’ve had the repetitive “if only I could just concentrate on my case” whine from Hillary due to some subplot situation. It’s getting annoying. And then she has an aha moment when she’s doing something else or day dreaming or distracted and she suddenly knows what she believes she should have seen all along.
I think this is the first book that I didn’t see the resolution coming. I’m not sure the hints were as clear this time but it made sense once it was out there. So it was a more clever mystery.
The TSTL moment comes at the end and was really idiotic. It directly contradicted a scene which happened earlier and was just ridiculous. I guess the author couldn’t have gotten where she wanted to without doing it but it directly undermines everything about Hillary we’ve come to know and respect. And then the ending is dumb and annoying and is going to drag this irritating subplot out into another book.
I’m seriously wondering whether I want to go on and read that book. I was doing a binge read and I’m not sure I’m in the right frame of mind to go on to book 14 now as I’m still too ticked off.
Hillary’s second case in the cold case unit is a ten year old murder. A college student is murdered and Hillary can’t find anyone with a clear motive. Several red herrings are offered up but none of them seem to rise to a case of an impassioned spur of the moment murder. Hillary is also distracted by the stalker she’s suddenly got on her tail. This is one of my irritations. In at least the last three books we’ve had the repetitive “if only I could just concentrate on my case” whine from Hillary due to some subplot situation. It’s getting annoying. And then she has an aha moment when she’s doing something else or day dreaming or distracted and she suddenly knows what she believes she should have seen all along.
I think this is the first book that I didn’t see the resolution coming. I’m not sure the hints were as clear this time but it made sense once it was out there. So it was a more clever mystery.
The TSTL moment comes at the end and was really idiotic. It directly contradicted a scene which happened earlier and was just ridiculous. I guess the author couldn’t have gotten where she wanted to without doing it but it directly undermines everything about Hillary we’ve come to know and respect. And then the ending is dumb and annoying and is going to drag this irritating subplot out into another book.
I’m seriously wondering whether I want to go on and read that book. I was doing a binge read and I’m not sure I’m in the right frame of mind to go on to book 14 now as I’m still too ticked off.