Michaela’s Comments (group member since Aug 16, 2019)

Michaela’s comments from the Reading the Detectives group.

So sad. Thanks RC for letting us know.

Finished it today and found it dark in the beginning. It was interesting to read further, though not quite like a detective novel.
What a coincidence that I read Twelve Angry Men last month, no mystery but dealing with a jury too.

I promised the same, but Susan in NC suggested the ones I had wanted to read, so I´m glad! :)

Me three lol! Too many books for this month...

Finally finished this, and was really disappointed. Not badly written, but not what I´d expected from a detective novel. At first I´d thought that perhaps the narrator would be the culprit, then I waited till the end that Brendel would appear to be the murderer. His disguising of the real end and the letter to Winn was very suspicious. I also couldn´t really follow his line of reason. And the end with suicide and the long letter of explanation... *rolls eyes*

Do you still discuss Dissolution???

Sorry to hear this Sid and wishing you peace on your way.

Susan in NC wrote: "Shows as $14 for paperback on Amazon US, but it’s been out for years, I read it through my city library."

I´ve got it at home, and would really like to read it! :)

Susan wrote: "That has happened to me many times, Michaela. It's impossible to check what's available in the US."

Yes, that´s because it always shows my own country, even if I look at the UK or US site. I´ll think of something...

Finally finished this book and was a bit disappointed because of all the positive reviews. In the beginning I thought that the slow tempo showed how slowly people lived then, especially in a monastery, but then I thought it would never finish. The solution of the crime was in the background, but the rest was very sad - destroying houses of God because people didn´t have the king´s religion. I thought the murders were just a pretence. I also can hardly imagine that Shardlake was as naive as he tells in this book. In spite of this I think I´ll try the next book in the series too, but the Tudor times are a little boring to me in the meantime, though there are many books about that episode.

I´m the same as Abigail, as most of the books I nominated before weren´t available in the US or/and UK.

Same here, still reading one of our buddy reads... ;)

Jill wrote: "I hope that before April Goodreads corrects the author of a Surfeit of Suspects is George Bellairs and not Martin Edwards, who only wrote the introduction"

I´ve given up on requesting something in the GR Librarian Group, as they take forever.

This has been on my list for a while, so I´ll read this too, but a little later. :)

Great! What a win! Looking ahead to this!

I liked the first stories best, as they all had such a surprising ending. Those that had other crimes than murder in them imo were mostly not as good and the children were partly rather gruesome.

I´ll read this too, and will probably take your advice Susan in NC! :)

Thanks Susan in NC for nominating a Lorac that´s on my list! :)

Happy New Year to all members, and thanks to the Mods for this great group! :)

I liked this too, especially with the Widow Perle. The story was predictable, concerning the criminal as well as the love story. The books are always well written though, and there was some suspense in this one too.