2.5 stars

I think Tana French has ruined me for mystery/thriller novels, because to date I haven't been able to find any that I enjoy anywhere nearly as much as the Dublin Murder Squad series. (Agatha Christie is a legend of the genre so I was optimistic, but I really should have known better.)

It may partly have been that I wasn't really a fan of the narrator, but I just didn't really care about any of the characters or even the central storyline. The turns of the plot didn't really engage me; there was little tension in the relationships that I tend to think of as central to the small-town setting and murder mystery plot.

So yeah, to be quite honest I just finished this one because I'd already started and I needed a book set in a vicarage (or abbey or monastery or convent) for the PopSugar reading challenge.

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CONVERSION: 7.0 / 15 = 2.5 stars

Prose: 7 / 10
Characters & Relationships: 3 / 10
Emotional Impact: 2 / 10
Development / Flow: 4 / 10
Setting: 4 / 10

Diversity & Social Themes: N/A
Intellectual Engagement: N/A
Originality / Trope Execution: N/A
Rereadability: N/A
Memorability: N/A