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A review by nickedkins
A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
5.0
I usually go to bed before midnight, but I stayed up reading this until 4:30 in the morning. The best way to describe why is that the story had momentum. However, it wasn't so much that I had a burning desire to find out who the murderer and the victims were. It was more that each page seemed to slightly change my prediction of what would happen while never giving the game away (I didn't work it out until the very end). This was done in a natural way and didn't feel manipulative.
There's not a whole lot to the characters — the exception is Adam, whose shifting feelings provided most of the momentum — and the female characters are just props. But despite this, I really enjoyed the feeling of moving through the plot. I haven't read many murder mysteries, so might try a few more in the future.
There's not a whole lot to the characters — the exception is Adam, whose shifting feelings provided most of the momentum — and the female characters are just props. But despite this, I really enjoyed the feeling of moving through the plot. I haven't read many murder mysteries, so might try a few more in the future.