cook_memorial_public_library's review
5.0
A 2017 staff favorite highly recommended by Jane. Check our catalog: https://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/search/C__Sduplicity%20thoft__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=gold
tbsims's review
4.0
I rated the others a 5. This one got a 4 only because it was soo 'low'. Poor Fina. No sunshine in this one but hopefully something good is coming her way with the next book.
dogearedtales's review
4.0
I love Fina and while this one is not as good as the first one I still raced through it in only a few days. I wish that more books were well written about female sleuths.
tboofy's review
4.0
I haven't read the other Fina Ludlow books, but I'm definitely going to. Great mystery, interesting characters, dysfunctional family situation, sassy PI...good stuff.
zzzrevel's review
3.0
Meh. I did not find anything to get excited about
when I read this one.
First of all, it is my first read of this series and it
was Book #4. I really felt if you have not read
the first three you are definitely missing
some things.
Second of all, I just felt the protagonist is
rather mundane. The writing seems to be
sort of a monotone. I just could not work
up any empathy for her.
I know others may like this kind of writing
but it just is not for me.
when I read this one.
First of all, it is my first read of this series and it
was Book #4. I really felt if you have not read
the first three you are definitely missing
some things.
Second of all, I just felt the protagonist is
rather mundane. The writing seems to be
sort of a monotone. I just could not work
up any empathy for her.
I know others may like this kind of writing
but it just is not for me.
cindai23's review
5.0
This series continues to raise itself above and beyond. Fina is a great heroine, with realistic flaws and problems. The revelation at the end certainly set up the tension for the next story!
pgchuis's review
5.0
Fina (in her role working for her family law firm) is asked to look into an evangelical (here used to connote promoting a prosperity gospel and wifely submission etc) church to which the daughter of a client is proposing to donate a valuable property. At the same time she is dealing with the return to town of her brother Rand, who we know from the previous instalment to be guilty of an appalling crime.
This was fast-paced and never over-complicated. I like Fina, but don't understand why she doesn't just move away from her family and make her own life. One of the elements of the ending was a little underwhelming, but overall excellent.
This was fast-paced and never over-complicated. I like Fina, but don't understand why she doesn't just move away from her family and make her own life. One of the elements of the ending was a little underwhelming, but overall excellent.
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