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The Mozart Murders by Loucinda McGary
3.0

This one started off a bit rocky for me as I found the writing style in the beginning a bit too "textbook" in setting things up as well as the personalities of the characters. That and there were quite a few stereotypical characters as well as set ups (only girl/youngest in a family of boys trying to stand out on her own, musician automatically equally being gay, etc) but it did pick up speed about a quarter of the way thorugh and I did enjoy it well enough.

The one thing that did bother me though was that you never found out the reason for the obsession with Mozart. It makes it seem like it was just to have an alliterative title or an excuse to have a creepy laugh for the villain. The reason was pretty well laid out, but not why the killer choose to use Mozart. This was also a mystery where you couldn't guess who did it until it was laid out for you, which is not bad it's just a fair warning to not go in and find out why.

Overall not a bad read and a quick easy one. I found that the romance aspect almost became overbearing at some points, which is not a knock against romance since it is oe of my favorite genres. I was just expecting more thriller/mystery than that.