Swanson will keep most readers guessing until the end. The stakes rise when Kershaw admits he knew one of the victims but chose not to share that with Mulvey. Cain’s Double Indemnity and hopes that Kershaw can give her a lead as to who might be using his list for a campaign of bloodshed. Mulvey is also looking into a murder that mirrors the circumstances of James M. A few years back, he started a blog, and the first post was entitled Eight Perfect. The post’s author (and novel’s narrator), Malcolm Kershaw, owns a small Boston bookstore that specializes in mysteries. So he decides to create a post of the most clever, most ingenious, nearly foolproof murders in crime fiction, which consists of eight novels. Malcolm Kershaw, a worker at the Old Devil’s Bookstore, is assigned to work on the store’s new blog. For example, Mulvey is probing the deaths of three people apparently connected only by having a name related to birds, a setup similar to Agatha Christie’s The A.B.C. Eight Perfect Murders is based on a fictional blog post, the type that appears in mystery and literature blogs all the time. EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS is a mystery lover’s dream. In 2004, Malcolm Kershaw, the narrator of this outstanding fair-play crime novel from Swanson ( Before She Knew Him), began working at Boston’s Old Devils Bookstore, where he posted a list on the store’s blog of eight mysteries in which “the murderer comes closest to realizing that platonic ideal of a perfect murder.” Years later, FBI agent Gwen Mulvey tells him she’s investigating multiple killings that she believes may have been influenced by his blog post.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |