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A review by ashleylm
Diamond Solitaire by Peter Lovesey
4.0
Held my attention throughout, and (absolute coincidence) some of takes place in Japan, and I'm actually in Japan for a holiday, as I write this review, so I could tell his details were right.
No nitpicks other than when looked at soberly afterward there was a lot of coincidences, deus-ex-machina, fortuitious clues, etc. But of course that's whey we're reading ... a story about a mystery where there aren't any clues and nothing gets solved would be disappointing in the extreme. But we're not supposed to notice how bare-faced it is, I suppose!
(Note: I'm a writer myself, so suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. These aren't ratings of quality, just my subjective account of how much I liked them: 5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)
No nitpicks other than when looked at soberly afterward there was a lot of coincidences, deus-ex-machina, fortuitious clues, etc. But of course that's whey we're reading ... a story about a mystery where there aren't any clues and nothing gets solved would be disappointing in the extreme. But we're not supposed to notice how bare-faced it is, I suppose!
(Note: I'm a writer myself, so suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. These aren't ratings of quality, just my subjective account of how much I liked them: 5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)