Review: Brilliantly Different Detective Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2013
'The Case of the Pig in the Evening Suit' is the story of Jin Johnston, an amateur detective who enjoys helping people.The book starts off with an intro to Jin's everyday life and then the slower paced beginning gives way to some wild and shocking twists and turns as the mystery develops and the pace picks up. Jin is a fairly pedantic kind of guy and provides a few nicely neurotic moments with his behaviour. I enjoyed this narrator very much, he was a great character. Chiara was a very interesting love interest too, as she was very free-spirited and unpredictable.For me this was a fresh take on detective stories, different from anything I've read in the past. Though the twists in the plot were kind of wild they were still believable, and it was the slightly outlandish flavour that made this book so brilliant. The characters were quirky and very well written, and the book was very hard to put down once I got started. I read this over two days, but if I'd had the time I would have torn through it in one!