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Deeper Shade of Blue

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A Deeper Shade of Blue is, as a mystery, fairly satisfying. Three-quarters of the way through the story, you still have no idea why the central event has taken place or who perpetrated it, but the search for answers continues to be interesting.

Alex Mavros, a Scots-Greek private investigator, has been hired by a Turkish-American to search for a missing person who was last seen on the Greek island of Trigono. There are suspects aplenty, both foreign and native, on the tourist island. Alex is an interesting character, and it would have been great to see what a better writer might have made of him.

This is a story that could have been riveting, were it not for the fact that the author is a mediocre writer at best. The only thing wrong with this book is the writing, which unfortunately is the medium through which the story is told. Three-quarters of the way through the book, I felt could no longer stand another stock phrase or cliched description. I really wanted to know why the missing person had been abducted, and who did it, but I couldn't take one more line of this man's writing. It's a mystery to me how he ever found a publisher, let alone a readership.