Review: A witty, well polished psychological drama…
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
Plot: Anne, a psychologist, working in Tadmore hospital finds herself being in the center of grisly murders taking place around the town. She tries to unveil the identity of the murderer but couldn’t see a shocking disclosure creeping towards her.Strengths: Nice Plot and a well thought story.Not many loose ends.Keep readers off the hook by not letting go the suspense till the very last. You can only guess but can’t be sure of the murderer hence it is very difficult to leave the book in between.Very well written. The book has an amazing flow.It’s not so graphic but pretty descriptive, which works for this book. Because the whole idea was to build a concrete story and show what lies in murderer’s heart rather than relying on gratuitous violence to disturb readers.Since, there’s handful of characters and you know killer has to be among them, so the reader instinctively joins the protagonist to solve the mystery.Weak spots: The character of Anne, I felt, was a bit neurotic at times. For a psychologist, she was quite timid and way too emotional.The murder scenes, for which the author has dedicated different chapters, were somewhat vague. At times it was not clear who’s killing who.Not violent, profane or disturbing- which my kind of readers do expect from a psychological thriller.I correctly guessed the killer halfway. (May be it’s not a negative and maybe I’m just too smart:)Final Words: I chose to read Murderer’s heart solely on the title of the book. It does justice to the title, and I think author managed to develop a sound murder mystery, which is not easy to do anymore. Go for it and you won’t be disappointed.My rating: 4.5/5