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Old 09-02-2018, 09:38 AM   #27
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Yeah, it's different from her other books, but I like it. May be my favorite of the three. Have to see how it ends.
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An Unwanted Guest looks like it might be very good, but at that price I think I'll read an old Agatha paperback.
Stick to Agatha.

I read An Unwanted Guest, and when I finished I wanted to throw it across the room.

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If an author is going to write what seems like a classic mystery, she needs to follow the rules--i.e., give the reader a fair chance to play detective and solve the mystery. Instead, Lapena offers a huge information dump, suddenly revealing connections and motivations that were never even hinted at previously. Plus, how implausible is it that in a random collection of weekend guests at a small hotel, so many of them have some kind of murder/suspicious death in their past? Yet the only one that matters isn't revealed till the information dump. Grrr.
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