Review: Murder - Mystery meets High Camp
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
If you love a good murder/mystery then "Weekend in Weighton" will quench that thirst. Eddie is a free-wheeling, trash-talking, swashbuckler type of a guy who finds himself up to his elbows in situations that go from bad to worse far too quickly.The story starts out a bit rough but Terry Murphy quickly smooths out the roughness and draws you in to the town. Weighton is a town that many will recognize since we have all either lived in or been through such a place as this or saw one depicted in a movie somewhere. A town full of lost dreams and people without hope. Eddie our hero is one of these people.With joblessness and hopelessness the order of the day in this small town becoming a gumshoe was to be Eddie's way out. 15 minutes after he talks to his first client, the story starts to go terribly bad, the client is dead and Eddie finds himself being beaten to a pulp, from there on out the pace picks up and you are glad to be along for the ride.In one weekend this poor sod is, wanted by the cops for murder, beaten senseless, gets into the cross-hairs of the towns big-wigs, and the icing on the cake, his girlfriend is acting up too.Overall it was a delightful read, although there were a few drawbacks for me. The number of characters and plot twists boggle the mind at times, causing one to get a bit lost and the explanation passages were a bit too long.Weekend in Weighton's main character, Eddie is a lovable sort of fellow and Tommy was a great antagonist. I would read the sequel because on the whole it was a book rich with comedic prose.