Julie Campbell

No more Feeney pre-orders for me

Revisado: 01-20-25

I can't emphasize enough how totally absurd and ridiculous this book is. You can't "convince" birds not to live on an island. Now think of the absolute dumbest, clueless person you know. The protagonist is dumber. I am DNFing this at the 43% point and will stop in at the library to read the last chapter to make sure the dog is okay. I would return it but apparently suffering through 40% is too far to qualify for a return.

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Last time I pre-order

Revisado: 07-04-24

What a total dog's dinner of a book. The last hour is the only thing that saved it from being a 1 or 2 star book. First, Tilly is almost missing completely, and her character is essential to the books. Second, where Poe had been a brusque, take no nonsense kind of guy in previous books, in this one he comes across as a petulant jerk, and is totally off-putting. Third, internal inconsistencies. In one ten minute scene the doctor says: 1. I won't let you tell me what happened because it would cause too much damage; 2. you can tell me what happened if you want to; 3. I won't force you to tell me what happened; 4. only by telling me what happened and remembering it without reliving will you recover. Huh?! But most of all, it's just an ugly, ugly book with ugly people doing ugly things. It makes me feel like I need a long, long shower.

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Mostly great PI story.

Revisado: 12-03-23

I enjoyed 95% of this book so much, that I am going to grade it according to that. A Minnesota P.I. is hired by the Edina PD to help investigate the murder of a woman. Well written with well developed characters. But not only is there an info dump at the end reminiscent of Christie, there was no chance the reader could have solved the murder. But, having said that, I like the protagonist that I will read the next in the series.

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Looking forward, looking back...

Revisado: 05-30-22

Not at all what I was expecting, but I not only loved it, I'll probably read it again. But be warned, if you disliked In The Electric Mist With the Confederate Dead, you will hate this. However, if you loved it, this is even better.

At 85, Aaron Broussard is crushed when his only child, Fannie Mae, dies suddenly. When he tries to find some light in his life by reaching out to a couple of punks who vandalize his barn, instead he descends into an ever widening cycle of terror and revenge. And one last chance at love.

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WTH?!

Revisado: 09-11-19

If you are looking for a decent mystery, you're at the wrong place. If you are looking for a cross between a bodice ripper and a soap opera, with a side of satanism, you're in the right place. Being totally honest, I did not finish it. I. Could. Not. Finish. It. Take one impossibly handsome cop (who is also a bully and a dick), and throw in one impossibly beautiful civilian (who has no business being in the story at all), and well, you can see where that's going.... If I had gotten this in paperback, I would have thrown it against the wall.

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No. Just, no.

Revisado: 03-25-19

Interviewing everyone who was ever in the same building with a murderer and then stringing together 5000 anecdotes does not constitute writing a book. The only time I heard the author attempt to be creative (full confession - I couldn't make it to the halfway point) he has a victim shouting, as the killer is stabbing her, "Not my heart. Not my heart".

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Murder and the British Raj

Revisado: 09-24-16

Sam Wyndham, veteran of WWI and former inspector with Scotland Yard, has been persuaded to move to Calcutta and work with the police there.  He is still trying to find is footing in this strange new country when a white high-placed government employee is found murdered outside an Indian whorehouse.

This would have been an excellent mystery anyway, but I believe it is even more so because the author is a Brit from an Indian heritage who is able to give the reader insight into thinking and attitudes of both the British Raj and the Indians. 

Simon Bubb is now of of my favorite readers, able to both distinguish the characters, and accurately handle multiple accents.

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Are you kidding me?!

Revisado: 10-08-13

The writing is actually quite good in this debut. I'm not a fan of murder mysteries that spend an inordinate amount of time in serial killers heads but I could have forgiven that. What I can't forgive is advancing the plot by having the detective make "intuitive leaps" based on nothing. If I hadn't been listening to this on my iPod, I would have thrown it against the wall.

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The Beginning of the End of the Republic

Revisado: 07-14-13

If this had been written as an historical novel I would have rated it four stars. The history, the anthropology were great. But it was sadly lacking in mystery. Still, I enjoy the writing enough to go on to book three in the series.

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Excellent!

Revisado: 12-25-12

Three years ago two 15 year old girls vanished. There is a police investigation but they are thought to have run away to London. Until the body of one of the girls is found after a blizzard, barefoot and sexually mutilated. Joe O'Loughlin is asked to review the original investigation in light of the girls obviously not having run away. Told by both Joe, and Piper Hadley, the surviving teen, Robotham writes yet another perfect suspense-filled mystery.

And, as always, Sean Barrett is the perfect narrator.

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