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A review by hadeanstars
The Shadow Murders by Jussi Adler-Olsen
4.0
I really did not want to read this, the series jumped the shark in the previous instalment, and I didn’t really see how it could be revived. All the questions were answered, all the character mysteries solved, and a huge dose of near-parody became the overarching sense of at least two of the main characters.
But you don’t get away so easily from a series into which you’ve invested enough time to read 8 entire novels without being tempted to try just one more.
In fact, this novel was much more of a return to the old formula, as if the author had a bit of a funny five minutes and had to get something out of his system. He’d perhaps got tired of writing well-paced police procedurals and fancied writing an action movie script. Now he’s got that out of his system, he can get back to normal.
This was okay, if not amazing.
I guess I will have to read the next one since it will be the last novel in the series, so I will finish it. There’s enough interest and investment there, and I have grown to be fond of some of the characters, so I would like to see how it all resolves. 7/10
But you don’t get away so easily from a series into which you’ve invested enough time to read 8 entire novels without being tempted to try just one more.
In fact, this novel was much more of a return to the old formula, as if the author had a bit of a funny five minutes and had to get something out of his system. He’d perhaps got tired of writing well-paced police procedurals and fancied writing an action movie script. Now he’s got that out of his system, he can get back to normal.
This was okay, if not amazing.
I guess I will have to read the next one since it will be the last novel in the series, so I will finish it. There’s enough interest and investment there, and I have grown to be fond of some of the characters, so I would like to see how it all resolves. 7/10