tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post6906554421810598230..comments2024-03-11T00:52:06.529+10:30Comments on MYSTERIES in PARADISE: Review: WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, Laura LippmanKerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-85224710083138547902008-12-17T04:54:00.000+10:302008-12-17T04:54:00.000+10:30Tik WritesI enjoy reading biographies but LISTENIN...Tik Writes<BR/>I enjoy reading biographies but LISTENING to mysteries during my commute. My grandmother hooked me on Agatha Christie novels 40 years ago as a child. There are few writers and/or books these days that can have me stumped until the last chapter (seriously I treat them as puzzles and inevitably can piece together the clues)...but this one...kept me guessing almost to the end...well, okay, until Laura revealed it to me whole cloth. In addition the Laura's prose is "better than genre", I would call it "great" writing in the style of Dickens or Bronte.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-65726985071785673062008-11-11T06:39:00.000+10:302008-11-11T06:39:00.000+10:30I was ambivalent about the previous standalone by ...I was ambivalent about the previous standalone by Laura Lippman. I think it was about the second book I ever reviewed on my blog - the first was Jar City by Indridason.<BR/><BR/>The book I read, which was very slow and I think involved someone who had been imprisoned, was well-written but ultimately unsatisfying. The solution depended on the reader not being told about a conversation between two characters when they were staying with each other, so bit of a cheat. The reviewers raved about it, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com