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Title: silly
Review: Having enjoyed the intricacy of Case Histories I was eager to read this -- but what a disappointment. It felt like she was so obsessed with adding more layers and more characters and more twists that she forgot they all had to make sense together. The silliest part: (spoilers) I suppose *one* ridiculous divine-intervention plot-altering death isn't out of place in a book calling itself a "jolly" murder mystery, so when the dog suddenly and without explanation ups and dies in mid-lunge at Jackson (as we discover after a chapter cliffhanger), I felt cheated but kept going. But when the perfectly healthy Russian prostitute trips, hits her head, and dies then and there -- oh, come on. That's for really mediocre fourth-rate noir films, not a novel from a writer who I *thought* was sharp and perceptive. You could just see her writing herself into a corner and forgetting she had a backspace-delete key. At first I'd been happy to hear there'd be a third Jackson Brodie -- but now not so much.
