Review: A fun read that kept me turning the pages
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2012
A homeless man dies at Lalla's feet in an alley after he's been warned to stop leaving cut out snowflakes/love letters attached to her car.The man's mother points her finger at Lalla as the murderess. The dead man's aunt wants to talk to Lalla but goes missing. And a newsman whose body is found in Lalla's Cadillac is linked to all of them. Is anything what it seems?I like this series and the author has a wonderful story telling ability. This novel was fast moving and although lots of suspicion was cast over the supporting players I had guessed whodunit quite early on, but I was never 100% sure until the end.This novel has some editing problems. Looks like an editor was changing sentences around and forgot to go back and delete extra words. Punctuation shows up in odd places and punctuation is missing at the end of sentences and quotation marks are missing. I was confused at one point over who was talking. Mostly because the respondent's sentence was tagged into another person's paragraph. A lot of little things that distract a reader from an otherwise good story and slows down the reading trying to figure out what just happened here.For me the most annoying thing about this story was the random use of French words. These people are in California not Quebec and one of them is occasionally speaking in French when neither of the woman are known to have grown up in a bilingual family, studied French together, or have a French connection. I grew up in a bilingual household and studied French in school and university and I never use French unless everyone in the room speaks it or myself or someone else is providing a translation, otherwise its just rude. That's how I was brought up and how I felt when I read those passages minus a translation for those who might not understand this foreign language. There didn't seem to be any point to the one character who was speaking French and didn't add anything to the storyline. Typos in French too. Caught me by surprise but the author got it right a little later in the book. Just one of these things that kept me questioning why, why, why and disrupted an otherwise good read.Well written, not well edited, interesting characters, good dialogue, and a fast moving story that made me want to keep turning the pages. A good, fun read.