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NOTES ON A MURDER
B.P. Walter
HarperCollins UK | One More Chapter
Publication Date: November 23rd, 2023
246 Pages
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This time last year I read The Locked Attic by this author and it was a pretty good read. The marketing was a bit off as it really wasn’t a thriller but I did enjoy the story. This one is definitely a thriller though, it’s a bit of a slow-burn one but with murder afoot, it is marketed properly this time.
This book was less than 200 pages on my tablet and nothing happened for the first half of it. It was just two young adult brothers (20s) complaining about being on a Greek vacation with their parents. There was lots of moaning and complaining from everyone and it was a slog to get through. We get no explanation as to why the parents behave the way they do, or why any of the character’s actions are what they are. I felt the book was just too damn short, to be honest.
There are then and now chapters but they were twenty years apart and we have no idea what happened in those twenty years. The story had no cohesion and what eventually played out made no sense to me. I hated every single character in this story and connected to none of them. Walter tried to be serious and his writing wasn’t bad but the latter half of the book was just too over the top for my liking and not in a popcorn thriller kind of way. This is a very dark tale and I get what the author was trying to ask what are we capable of – what would we do for love, lust, excitement?
I don’t think I’ll be picking up any more of this author’s work because they aren’t really my cup of tea. But please do not take my word for it, he is beloved and has many great reviews. Mine just isn’t one of them.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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