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The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
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The pre-booked (no pun intended) franchising of book serials produces too many weak series and/or series that get progressively worse each book, the flipside when a series is written well, it becomes bigger than the sum of its parts, welcome to the Thursday Murder Club mystery series :) Club member, Elizabeth's past comes to her retirement complex as drug dealing, mugging (singular), theft, murders (plural) and more shake up (or is that stimulate) the lives of the four elderly Club members, their local police allies and everyone's favourite builder Bogdan, when her former employers Military Intelligence (and her former husband!) come to town!
This book has better murder mystery plotting than the first book but is still overly convoluted as well as being at times trite, but do I care? No! By now surely people are reading this series for this almost pseudo idyllic reality where the eclectic and very lovable cast are bounced off each other to make me, the reader smile? These are feel-good books despite the planned violence and crimes, and in turn that's what makes this book, and I presume series so good, I truly care about the cast and where their journeys will take them. A solid Four Star, 8 out of 12.
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This book has better murder mystery plotting than the first book but is still overly convoluted as well as being at times trite, but do I care? No! By now surely people are reading this series for this almost pseudo idyllic reality where the eclectic and very lovable cast are bounced off each other to make me, the reader smile? These are feel-good books despite the planned violence and crimes, and in turn that's what makes this book, and I presume series so good, I truly care about the cast and where their journeys will take them. A solid Four Star, 8 out of 12.
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September 26, 2022
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September 26, 2022
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September 28, 2022
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October 4, 2022
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Thanks Rosh. I had to Google Gestalt Theory, so thanks for the new word for me. I agree this is Gestalt Theory in action for me, not necessarily a big fan of the murder mysteries, but the reality and characterisations are superb especially with much more real (and funny) interpretation of older generations dealing with the digital age.
Ooh nice Cath, I really need to start listening to audio books as my eyesight is slowly failing.
Snap!