Title: Just never hooked me.
Review: I struggled to get interested in this book but finally gave up after 38 pages. I did not read the first Father Anselm book and maybe that would have helped carry over some interest in the characters. Maybe not. As a first time Broderick's reader, I find his writing style incredibly boring. What details or descriptive writing there was seemed only an effort to lengthen the book and not necessarily to be evocative of any mood or conjure vivid images in my imagination. I did not make it far enough to really comment on the craft of the mystery story itself. Perhaps a true mystery lover would have the patience to get through to the meat of the tale. Time to go back to Poe, Conrad, Hawthorne, King, or Chabon.
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