Review: Murder in the Dark.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2014
The Chamber of Commerce of Lexington.KY could use this book  for advertising if we counted the place names dropped...streets, restaurants and other businesses, UK, Coach Cal and our beloved Wildcats...but heaven forbid we use something so trite!  Be prepared to suspend belief all over the place...suddenly everyone has flashlights when the last time they were together there was only one candle...must be a generator to keep the fridge and freezer running, and maybe that is how the chair and elevator keep working...so why doesn't the fridge run in the owner's luxury apartment?  The so-called romantic banter while people are being murdered is purely ridiculous.  And if you escape from a house of horrors and your newfound lady love is missing are you going to go back in that house to go to sleep?  Dud!  Oh, and why did our intrepid hero just happen to have a plastic bag full of marbles to use to escape the bad guy on the steps???  Then we come to the grammatical goof that drove me nuts...misuse of "of". e.g. "not that good a shot"  became "not that good of a shot",...over and over again.  We won't even get into such things as three sentences in a row starting with "But", or the owner being "well healed" instead of "well heeled"  I will not waste my time on any more of this series.  There are too many good mysteries out there.  Agatha Christie did this premise much better.