Bryan Redeagle reviewed Deadly notions by Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Not a lot of mystery in this one
2 stars
I grabbed a couple mass-market paperbacks from my local library. I wasn't expecting an amazing read, but I was expecting a little better than I got.
For a murder mystery, there wasn't a whole lot of mystery happening. The victim dies early in the book, but the majority of time is spent following the main character, Tori, being threatened by her boyfriend's former girlfriend. Tori and her friends are implicated in the murder, and the chief of police takes turns harassing each one without looking for actual clues or checking alibis. He just interrogates them repeatedly, hoping that one of them will confess. In the few moments when Tori does investigate the murder, she has clue and connections drop into her lap, but she doesn't put anything together until the final pages of the book.