Review: murder mystery
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2012
Things I liked: the world of carriage horse competitions as a background and enough detail about the horses, the competition, and the people involved in the horses and/or competitions to (almost) make it a horse story as much as a murder mystery.Things I didn't like (but others might): it is a fairly typical murder mystery.It is a good whodunit in some ways: the characters are somewhat varied, the motives make sense, it is neither too predictable nor too unpredictable.  It suffers from some typical weaknesses of the genre: minor but niggling inconsistencies (in plot or characterizations, vs editing), minor characters tend to be flat, recaps of what-we-know-so-far or what-we-don't-know-yet a bit too often.I didn't notice any spelling or grammar problems or formatting issues.  I did find the shifts in viewpoint slightly odd but I had no trouble following them.