I also got a tad bit bored with a lot of passages of Mal making appointments at bars, Mal ordering drinks, Mal getting up and walking through passages and downstairs, etc. I wished there had been more of Mal remarking that his female employee never smiled and laughed with him like she did with his male employee, or his long-time acquaintances having a clue that he was probably not the best choice for an extra marital seduction (and Mal’s interpretation of that seduction could have been great if it happened earlier in the book before we kind of new who was guilty and who wasn’t). The bookstore order, Mal, gives hints throughout that he’s an unreliable narrator, and I do love unreliable narrators, and Swanson does his best to explain Mal’s emotionally isolated POV by having Mal tell us how a wall seems to come up between him and other people after knowing them for a short while, but telling us he lacks emotional connection isn’t as fun as figuring that out from the reactions of people around him. Swanson does a good job of making the literary tour through murders good for even less well-read mystery fans like myself as he gives just enough explanation to make it understandable. Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw #1)Ī book store owner writes a blog called “the perfect murders” and lists 8 from famous real life novels such as Deathtrap, Malice Aforethought, Strangers on a Train, etc.
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