Title: Far below the others in this series
Review: I'm currently reading this series. Most of the books are well-written and very enjoyable, but this one is definitely far below the average.The characterizations are surprisingly inept, and the plotting is so amateurish as to make the reader wonder if Donald Bain really wrote it.The biggest example (Spoiler Alert):A man is murdered in a hotel. Then someone tells Jessica that he remembers when the murdered man and his brother, who looked a lot like him, used to spend summers at the hotel when they were children. Then a witness swears that she's seen the murdered man alive and well. It takes Jessica Fletcher more than 100 pages to realize what every reader of mysteries sees immediately -- that it wasn't a ghost but the murdered man's identical twin brother whom the witness saw.The list of questions and answers about mystery writers, however, is very interesting.
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