Poorly written, too wordy yet still lacks good detail

The Andromeda Strain is one of my favorite books (and movie!) but I've never read anything else Crichton has ever written until now. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I was a little baffled by the plot. It seems like the author got halfway into writing the book and ran out of plot. I thought it was excessively wordy and I flipped through many pages because I just wasn't interested in the psychobabble. Overall a very suspenseful read, a real page turner and I enjoyed it, for the most part. Note: my copy was 498 pages long, about 200 pages more than goodreads listed.

Despite having lived in Scandinavia, I just can't seem to get into mysteries by Scandinavian writers. They're just too wordy and boring.

Didn't finish, really terrible book.

This was a 3 book omnibus. I thought the first book was great, the second book was good and the third book was a bit of a grind to get through. I'm not sure why these are called the William Monk Mysteries, as he's pretty much a minor character after the first book.