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A review by quietjenn
Death in Dark Blue by Julia Buckley
2.0
Pretty disappointed in this one. I liked the first book in the series so very much and I also really enjoyed Buckley's other series, despite it's slightly outlandish premise. So I'd actually been saving this one up as a treat to myself, but really I shouldn't have bothered. There are two mysteries at play here, neither of which are executed particularly well. Mystery A (the disappearance of the soon-to-be-ex-wife of our heroines new love interest) is carried over from the first book, which didn't really bother me, but it occupies the vast majority of this book and I honestly couldn't give a hoot about it. And the fact that it's "solved" such as it is by these characters and not, say, actual law enforcement, pretty much just using Google and flipping through some magazines, is a bit ridiculous. To say the least.
Mystery B is the murder of a socialite blogger who came to apologize to the above mentioned new love interest for suspecting him of murdering her friend, the above mentioned missing wife. She dies off-screen, before making any actual appearance and it seems almost incidental to the characters, who sort of occasionally go, "Oh yeah, she's dead. How sad."That's an exaggeration, obviously, but not by much. And when the actual explanation of her death comes, it is completely ridiculous rubbish.
And then! There is a DRAMATIC SCENE that sets up a cliffhanger for the next book. *Insert eye roll here* Which I will probably read because her other, slightly silly series was cancelled and I did like the first one so maybe this was a bad fluke?
Mystery B is the murder of a socialite blogger who came to apologize to the above mentioned new love interest for suspecting him of murdering her friend, the above mentioned missing wife. She dies off-screen, before making any actual appearance and it seems almost incidental to the characters, who sort of occasionally go, "Oh yeah, she's dead. How sad."That's an exaggeration, obviously, but not by much. And when the actual explanation of her death comes, it is completely ridiculous rubbish.
And then! There is a DRAMATIC SCENE that sets up a cliffhanger for the next book. *Insert eye roll here* Which I will probably read because her other, slightly silly series was cancelled and I did like the first one so maybe this was a bad fluke?