boo wrote:Don't know if you've read any of her Culver Valley (ongoing Crime/Detective) series but they're not very good either. My wife quite likes her so I've read two but abandoned the third. The first one you read will be a bit of a novelty, the second one will feel very familiar, the third will feel exactly the same. The books swap between a first person narrator and third person for the detectives trying to solve the murder. 1) The narrator will be a woman in her mid-30s who is a bit unlikeable (because difficult to love characters add depth) and she'll have a secret that she'll refuse to tell us but will keep referring to it to help create drama. "I can't tell them the truth because they'll discover my terrible secret." The narrator will completely innocently be linked to the murder, for example she'll have driven past the crime scene several times and aroused the suspicion of the police. 2) Cut to the police investigating the murder. One of them knows what he is doing (Simon Waterhouse I think his name is) but the rest don't have a clue. The crime is unsolvable and there'll be a note of something at the scene of the crime that makes no sense, but if they work out what it means maybe that will help... 3) Back to the narrator doing something a bit unpleasant (hating her husband or something) and the police pull her in for questioning. She doesn't want her terrible secret to be revealed so she'll lie to the police, which for some reason makes them even MORE suspicious. 4) Waterhouse and his bumbling gang will flap around interviewing a few other suspects. The DCI hates him and he's always on the verge of being sacked. Simon is married to another police officer and one of the detectives is having an affair with her sister. I forget the details about that bit because I really didn't give a shit about any of them. 5) Narrator is now going about her normal life, NOT revealing her terrible secret but fascinated by the crime. 6) Steps 4 & 5 repeat until... 7) Narrator finally reveals her terrible secret, and it'll be a bit undramatic like she's been talking to another man on a dating website and didn't want her husband to find out, so that's why she lied to the police. But there's a twist. That man is actually really important to the case (he might be the murderer or victim or something) so it turns out she actually was linked to the crime in a very loose way and without the initial suspicious activity in step 1 she'd never have realised and been able to help solve the case! 8) The confusing note in step 2 is solved and will be related to the person in step 7. It'll be an obscure confusing phrase that'll suddenly make sense to the narrator. 9) The police narrow in on the murderer. He'll be one of the several suspects from step 4 but you won't know which one because they'll say vague things like "We should go and arrest the murderer then, we are certain we have the right person". 10) Narrator goes to confront/catch the murderer. She might get killed or something so it's very dangerous. Sometime around now we'll find out who did it. 11) Police turn up to arrest the murderer so the narrator doesn't die. TLDR: The books are all similar and I have too much time on my hands. |
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