I am doing this review a day after our elections, keeping one eye on the TV! We have had floods in one part of the country and people going to vote in tractors and lorries. I have had broiling heat in Colombo. There were five fatal accidents, all caused by speeding and two murders. But there is still a lot of hope, because this election is bringing radical change to our country, and I am hoping for a better tomorrow.
Getting back to the review.
I needed a light hearted read despite the genre of a gruesome murder (poisoned pen nibs), so much of vicious trolling relentless and anonymous, but the characters were so fluffy and light hearted. Juno living in an imaginary world of her being young and flirty with everyone, Mil the bar man who had the measure of all the “girls”, Phoebe deep, anxious and protective of her wastrel and philandering husband and then the miscellaneous characters sprinkled through the story. The mean and the frivolous equally interesting.
The detective work was all over the place, each person following different suspects and with no coordination, though they all wanted to solve the problem. The murderer was not someone you’d suspect as a reader because of the many believable red herrings strewn all over the place.
Nice, light hearted story.
Sent by Boldwood Books for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.
Fingers crossed all of our tomorrows are better!
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