Bruce - reviewed on 11/5/2010

Helpful Score: 1

This is not your formulaic murder mystery that is too often written by series novelists. In her debut novel, Tana French has written a literary and intelligent mystery. The book has its flaws, mainly it is about 75 pages too long, but she crafts a very interesting case with characters that you want to know. The ending was a bit disappointing and this was the one area of the book that fell into old cliches - the main protagonists rides into the sunset alone having spent and/or lost all that mattered to him during the investigation of the murder. It was a melancholy ending that could have been much more satisfying. But overall, it was a very good novel and I look forward to reading her future works.

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