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No characters are to anyone's liking. Reviewers prepared me - haha! However, I can't help admiring creativity; a fresh angle. Instead of investigating a murderer, we meet the living person for a long time. We dislike her understand why her relatives do. I hate to say it but I think the point is that, by the time she dies, readers are relieved too, because everyone is better off! Now that, is a character study!

I am not liking any page of this novel, any more than reviews indicated that I would. I hope to zip through it tonight, as the earliest in a bunch of Robert Barnard mysteries I acquired. However, when I am dubious about liking a novel; it is in this case that negative reviews might improve the journey. If I know in advance what aspects people dislike and don't find them any worse, it boosts the experience for me!