A review by cluelesspixie
Evil in Return: A Mark Tartaglia Mystery by Elena Forbes

3.0

The pacing in this book is a bit off, so I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous ones. There's a lot of potential in the premise, but it gets squashed by the narrator's obsession of detailing everything and by the fact that some of the POV characters are boring or unlikeable. Also the main characters have the emotional maturity of teenagers, which gets annoying after a while. Some of the decisions are just plain weird - Tartaglia is leading the investigation, but he doesn't bother to read the book, then he sleeps with Anna out of the blue... The story could use some more editing as well.