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Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by David King
by David King
It's possible that true crime just isn't my thing. I'm on p. 153, and I'm giving up because I've been bored for the last 130 pages.
The writing style is more "history" than thriller, and the author clearly did a lot of research. Overall, King is a reasonably good author, although he ends far to many sections with the same formula: "He would soon have good reason to be skeptical", "He would soon learn that there were many more", "The police would soon have an answer, and it was not what he expected", etc. Somewhere around p. 100, I never wanted to read the word "soon" again.
I don't think I've read any other true crime books, so perhaps this just isn't my genre. But there are too many books on my to-read shelf to spend any more time being bored!
(Note: I received a free advance reading copy of this book from the publisher at a American Library Association Annual Conference. As you can see, I was not required to write a positive review. Thank you, Crown Publishers!)
The writing style is more "history" than thriller, and the author clearly did a lot of research. Overall, King is a reasonably good author, although he ends far to many sections with the same formula: "He would soon have good reason to be skeptical", "He would soon learn that there were many more", "The police would soon have an answer, and it was not what he expected", etc. Somewhere around p. 100, I never wanted to read the word "soon" again.
I don't think I've read any other true crime books, so perhaps this just isn't my genre. But there are too many books on my to-read shelf to spend any more time being bored!
(Note: I received a free advance reading copy of this book from the publisher at a American Library Association Annual Conference. As you can see, I was not required to write a positive review. Thank you, Crown Publishers!)
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Hi Paul,Sorry ... I've already passed the book along to a friend who, like you, enjoys true crime. He hasn't read it yet, though, so I still don't know what to think about this book!
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