Now that I've stopped writing for a little while, I've got to read a few books. So I went to my library, and ended up borrowing Mind's Eye by Hakan Nesser, who is, apparently, pretty popular in Sweden. I thought, Good! I like European things, and the description of the story sounded interesting.
The mystery starts out really promising. Guy wakes up and doesn't know what happened (quite like what I just wrote -- one reason I chose this book), and discovers his wife is dead. Guy goes to prison, but he didn't do it -- and gets murdered himself (don't worry, this is all in the blurb, so I'm not giving anything important away).
That's all good. Interesting. Okay, now what?
The investigators investigate. They talk to people. Halfway though, they're talking to people. At the 3/4 point, they're talking to people. At the end, they're talking to people.
I don't know. If you read on Amazon, it got really good reviews, but I didn't feel it. It was sort of like the middle sagged all the way to the end, and all the questioning became really repetitive. Very much a plot-driven story, since the characters didn't really have lives of their own (not as much as I like -- i.e. they didn't really do any extra-curricular activities that weren't mentioned as a side-note).
Nothing strikingly "wrong" with the story or the writing style, just not my cup of tea.
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