From Doon with Death
Overview: Love and death are the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by the look of it, it was very dull. Margaret Parsons had been a good woman – religious, old fashioned, and respectable. But it was not her life that interested Chief Inspector Wexford, it was her death – passionate, violent, and unfathomable.
Pages: 226 Pages
Writer: Ruth Rendel
Recommendations:
I decided to give this book a shot after it was recommended to me, but based on my experience, I clearly need to get my recommendations from a different source. The story revolves around a murder mystery, with Chief Inspector Wexford at the helm. Unfortunately, the story itself was about as exciting as watching paint dry.
If you’re old enough to remember early computer games, you’ll understand the feeling of clicking around different locations, searching for clues, and engaging in endless dialogue. Well, that’s pretty much what Chief Inspector Wexford does in this book. He moves from place to place, chatting up the locals, and then moving on to the next spot. The dialogue is supposed to be leading somewhere, but it’s like a road to nowhere – it doesn’t really add up to much in the end.
In conclusion, this book was a bit of a snooze-fest. If you’re looking for a thrilling murder mystery, you might want to look elsewhere.
Overall this book failed to deliver a good who done it. It really just is a bunch of dialog linked to a few clues here and there. Even the big reveal if you want to call it that was not really all the much of a big reveal. Maybe when I get time I will read the next book in the series to see if they catch on to any of the problems or if it is just more of the same.