This was chosen as a read for my book club, which apparently has an inclination for unreliable narrators/characters because this is the third one we've read this year. Or maybe we just like insane, kooky casts of characters.

My two wishes for this book:

1. That I had actually read and discussed this during middle or high school, when I absolutely hated to dissect literature. I would have enjoyed this over so many others we were forced to read.

2. That the entirety of the book had been as exciting as the last 20%.

The first 80% of the book...You'd expect that there would be a "Clue" aspect to it but the clues were so abstract that it really wasn't so much a who-done-it as much as it was leading you down a moral compass path. Which is fine, because it's meant for middle grade to explore themes and such.

I tell you what, though, if that old man hadn't been dead, I would have murdered him myself toward the end *if you catch my drift*.