July 2020 Value Read - The Snowdonia Killings by Simon McCleave

[Lorraine]

I've haven't read anything by this author before and as the book is in KU I thought I would give it a go. Reaching 43% my first impressions are that it needs to be proof read. The author refers to a car being a Saab xc-90, but Saab doesn't make this model Volvo do.I am going to finish the book but am undecided as to whether I would read the next one.

[Bill]

If confusing a Volvo model with Saab is the worst mistake, and it doesn’t affect the plot, it’s nothing to bother about. When you write a book, you discover such errors are almost impossible to catch. I’m still finding stuff like this in a book I published two years ago. You’re thinking of the name of a make of Swedish car, and you are that’s it.

[Lorraine]

The abscence of words in sentences disrupts the flow of the book if you have to stop and work out what the sentence should say. This author is not a novice,having written for t.v and film,silly mistakes shouldn't be made. On the same page as the car mistake they describe a house as having 5 bedrooms,yet 2 pages later it has 4 bedrooms. I suspect if he had made mistakes when writing for Silent Witness he wouldn't have been asked back.