Title: Decaying families and murder
Product review: When murder happens, reporter Alison wonders if it will rocket her to fame, but she does little more than wonder. Indeed, it seems past the capability of anyone in this quirky and well written novel to act at all--except in sudden bursts of murder.The murdered couple were part of a disfunctional family unable to cope with their child and the problems they faced. Alison's family was similarly disfunctional, with results that mirrored the murdered couple.The back cover promises that AN ENGLISH MURDER is a different kind of murder. Indeed it is. The mystery becomes the smallest part of this investigation into a community made up of members each of which is so obsessed with their individual problems that they cannot raise their heads enough to see the larger troubles that surround them. It is high praise indeed to say that Louise Doughty actually pulls it off.
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