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Verisimilitude

Heavens-to-Betsy what a tiresome read. Poor Lesley Grant-Adamson cannot write for nuts. The story is good enough, though hardly earth shifting, and the structure is first class, but goodness what boring dialogue, and what unlikely reasoning. One of her characters, a writer, uses a word processor at home, but takes his typewriter when he goes overseas because, "Of the electricity abroad." Oh, come on Linsey, they have reliable electricity on Gozo, and laptops are tolerant of voltage fluctuations because the convert almost any supply to low voltage DC. Besides, people who write on computers - computer is where you will find word processor applications - do not, I say again, do not, go back to hauling a mechanical clunker around. They would rather carry a suitcase full of spare batteries than go back to the no spell checker, white-out world of jammed ribbons and reams of wasted paper.

I had resolved to give it up reading this uninteresting novel twice, not to bother myself anymore with these tiresome characters as the outcome bothered me not one jot. Had there been another unread book in the house I would not have reached the end, and frankly could not have cared less. As it was, I reached an ending in which the male central character, Gower, "Never knew about the bullet through the window. He barely felt it touch his forehead. It was nothing." And the female central character appears not to have got her man, a policeman, of high rank, who does not inform his colleagues when his girlfriend's flat is ransacked and life threatening messages are written, in lipstick of course, on the bathroom mirror. Oh come on Lesley, give it up, or stop treating your readers as if they were nine year olds.