[sun surfer]

I finished A Morbid Taste for Bones and liked it, 4 stars for the book and for the narrator.

Spoiler:

It was a too-simple mystery in that as soon as Columbanus said he'd fallen asleep during his night with the other brother, which led to the other brother being a suspect since he could've left while Columbanus was asleep, I thought that the other brother could've instead been asleep and Columbanus was the culprit, and put the brother to sleep with the drug he had.

Well, that was exactly the case, but while I didn't mind solving it immediately so much, I wasn't a fan of the trope of the smart Cadfael considering every suspect possibility EXCEPT that, until the end of course. Is there a word for that, when an author makes a detective in mystery fiction consider all possibilities except the actual one even though the actual one is rather obvious too?

Still I ended up really liking the read because of the location, time period and characters, and though I'd solved the mystery I did not see the denouement coming and thought it was very well done.

Now I'm onto A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, narrated by Juliet Stevenson. I've already heard Stevenson narrate Mrs Dalloway and she was great. The book is only five hours long so I'll probably be done with it quickly.