A review by verityw
Asking for Truffle by Dorothy St. James
1.0
******Copy from NetGalley in return for an honest review*******
Where to start. Honestly. Where. To. Start. I am having such a poor run with cozy crimes at the moment. This is another which is largely devoid of sympathetic characters and which compounds that by having a detective who is almost beyond too stupid to live, with the attention span of a goldfish and the deductive skills of a fish too. Ooof. I could go on at length about my issues with the way the heroine's (tragic) backstory is set up and her inability to control her dog, but life is too short. I'm just going to chalk it up as Not For Me and move on. Sorry.
Where to start. Honestly. Where. To. Start. I am having such a poor run with cozy crimes at the moment. This is another which is largely devoid of sympathetic characters and which compounds that by having a detective who is almost beyond too stupid to live, with the attention span of a goldfish and the deductive skills of a fish too. Ooof. I could go on at length about my issues with the way the heroine's (tragic) backstory is set up and her inability to control her dog, but life is too short. I'm just going to chalk it up as Not For Me and move on. Sorry.