Title: Simon & Deborah Go Home!
Product review: Simon and Deborah have always been the least likeable characters in all of Elizabeth George's substantial mystery books. They should have never leaped from second string to main character. I can't finish this book. Deborah is such a despicably weak whiner I can't get past it to care who killed who. Simon needs some assertiveness training. Elizabeth needs an editor. She also needs to listen. Her fans have been clamoring for a Barbara Havers book from the get-go. The women in her books have always been too dependent on their men. Maybe Elizabeth's religous background is getting in the way of her mystery writing. This is the only explanation I can think of for creating such unsympathetic, suboordinate female characters. Look what happened to our beloved Barbara, the only independent woman in the entire series. I won't be buying any more books from Elizabeth.
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