Title: Had to skip to the end
Review: This book has an interesting premise, but I found it to be tough reading. Not to mention some parts of it were improbable: someone is killed at a writing convention and everyone sticks around? I would've been heading back home as soon as possible. Plus, there were too many characters to keep track of, and many of them were requisitely 'quirky' and eccentric. Just seemed a little too pat and bizarre for my tastes. By the halfway point of the book, the sheriff didn't know anything major and seemed to spend all his time talking to this writer or that agent. Plus, I had a hard time getting the feel of the sheriff; he seemed to be a cardboard character, a generic sheriff. No personality whatsoever. Finally, I had to skip to the last chapter or two to find out "whodunit." Maybe if the book had moved more quickly and not been drawn out to 250 pages, it might have held my interest more.
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