Thursday, August 16, 2018

Don't Look Now/ Max Manning/ 310 pgs

This looked like a promising police procedural--serial killer strikes in London, posting pictures of his victims on social media and taunting the police. The first few chapters were interesting. The author has a spare writing style and short chapters that keep the pace going. Unfortunately after those first few chapters, the plot becomes very predictable. The police arrest the wrong person to much fanfare because that one superior officer insists it be done even though they haven't checked all the details. The investigating officer is suspended but strikes out on his own investigation. The killer targets the investigating officer. And the identity of the killer is very obvious. I wanted to like this one but found myself skimming the last half.

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