reading (Strangled Prose)
Jan. 16th, 2009 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI started "Strangled Prose" on Tuesday night and finished it on Thursday night. Hess' mysteries are quick and easy reads. This one is set earlier than the last one I read, after reading that one I went through the pile and put them in order by copyright. This one didn't have much for secondary characters at all. All the males were hitting on the Mary Sue main character with every other breath. It's a burden to be so wanted, but somehow she perseveres and solves the crime. The book is an easy read, but isn't going to change your life unless you're freezing and have a match or have run out of Charmin.
I very rarely get everything worked out in a whodunit before the last page. Well, alright, being honest, I often don't work out all the details even after the last page. But this one was easy, I had my favorite suspect fairly early in the book and had worked out most of the details before the end. I think the end kind of clunked. The murderer's final speech was cliche (more cliche), but more importantly, didn't match up with the motivation explained later. I can picture the actor to play the part saying, "wait, what's my motivation here?" in the last scene.
8. Joan Hess "Strangled Prose"
I very rarely get everything worked out in a whodunit before the last page. Well, alright, being honest, I often don't work out all the details even after the last page. But this one was easy, I had my favorite suspect fairly early in the book and had worked out most of the details before the end. I think the end kind of clunked. The murderer's final speech was cliche (more cliche), but more importantly, didn't match up with the motivation explained later. I can picture the actor to play the part saying, "wait, what's my motivation here?" in the last scene.
8. Joan Hess "Strangled Prose"
