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I wanna read a murder mystery where someone is killed with a two-handed Highland sword! (Well, actually I have read a murder mystery where the murder victim was beheaded with a sword - the first book in the Matthew Shardlake series. But I wouldn't mind another!) |
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From the "Sacred and Terrible Air" what impressed me the most was that the investigations that take place on the plot, searcing for the three girls disappeared 30 years ago, from three old friends whose shared them infance together, leads to an explanation (no spoilers) where the reader still will ask him/herself what suggestions given follow: since the novel is written by the prospective of various characters, my personal guess was still if that has had been a murder, or to take the sci-fi parts of it. And there is where I think that novel is kinda majestic: finding oneself asking if to believe and follow a maybe-lay-sci-fi plot, or a very grotesque manic murder, etc... |
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"On the mantlepiece was a gold carriage clock, a pair of antique duelling pistols, and some silver candlesticks." Yeah, nice try. There are just things that are obvious when you read too much mystery fiction: No body? - not dead Disfigured? - not who you think it is |
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With the candlestick in the parlour.
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I just read "My Cousin Rachel", Daphne du Maurier, because I couldn't remember if I had already read it.
50 pages in I realized that I had read it before, but that it hadn't left much of an impression. It turned out to be one of those books where I wished that I turned the page and a meteor had hit and killed everyone. Spoiler: No meteor. |
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