2011 cosy mystery, second in the Mac Faraday series. Police
detective turned heir Faraday finds his ex-wife importuning him to let
them get back together… but soon enough she's dead, and so's her new
husband.
It's another odd story, and I find myself enjoying Carr's style
while not quite being able to classify it. There's virtuous rurality
here (pretty much everybody who's not a local turns out to be one sort
of villain or another), and there are implications of the sort of
systematic corruption in Washington DC which might reasonably make one
lose one's faith in the entire justice system… if they were followed
through, which they aren't.
I liked the people, but I found that the investigation itself bogged
down a bit, with a subplot or two too many that just didn't sustain my
interest. It was pretty obvious what the big mystery was all about,
and whenever it takes the characters much longer to think of something
than it takes the reader, they come off as stupid.
Still, I wanted something light after some good solid recent reading,
and I'm interested to see where Carr takes the series next.
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