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The Swimming Pool
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Mary Ellen
Nov 06, 2020 rated it it was ok
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2.5

I'd heard of Mary Roberts Rinehart for years and, when an online book group chose this as a monthly read and I found it on Hoopla, I dove in (so to speak).

Sadly, I was disappointed.

For me, the book did not age well. The main character didn't have much...character. None of them did, really. Her love interest, an "Irish cop," does not act like any reasonable cop ever would, putting her and himself and, by the end, nearly every character in the book, in pointless danger. The first person narrati
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Lisa Thomas
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Sara
May 19, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Robert
Oct 25, 2020 marked it as to-read
Jane
Nov 07, 2020 rated it it was ok