I was hoping for something like Kate Morton with this one - but sadly not. The characters and plot were okay, but what made it a hard slog was the out of sync setting. It was supposed to be 1912 but everything about it seemed decades later. This kept jolting me out of the story just as I was being drawn into it.
The 9th Judgement - James Patterson
A charity shop pickup. I've never been a big fan of Patterson's sole-authored novels - or, indeed the Women's Murder Club series - and this did nothing to change my mind. Used up an hour of so easily enough though.
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
