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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Long Ride,
By sweetmolly (RICHMOND, VA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fourth Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
The solving of a 70-year old murder is a hard plot to handle. The reader must be engaged in long ago happenings yet have a sense of immediacy and urgency about a victim and contemporaries who are long dead.The book is poorly paced, too long, and the plot sprawls. The victim is not found until page 166, and by that time, my interest was flagging. The heroine is resolutely young, young, young. I had the feeling she has never visualized a life beyond 30. However, Ms. Saulnier deftly characterizes supporting players and obviously has insider knowledge of community theatre. Because so much of the plot involved the architecture of a crumbling historical theatre, a site map would have been welcome. The characters, with the exception of the heroine, are lifelike and attractive. She stays away from the oddballs, who are basically dull except for their quirky lifestyle or appearance. All are recognizable human beings. What I found most interesting were Ms. Saulnier's thoughts on preserving historical buildings. She is thoughtful and presents both sides of the question in an appealing manner. I would have liked more sense of location; the place could have been Indianapolis just as easily as New York State. I found the solution to be a letdown; the present is handled better than the past. The motivations of the cast of 1926 characters are slim and shadowy. Grade: C+.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best of the series so far,
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This review is from: The Fourth Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
Beth Saulnier reaches new heights of frustrating the hell out of her readers with this, the third novel in the Alex Bernier series. Even for those of us who aren't great devotees of the pop mystery genre, if you believe you're a smart, perceptive person you often believe you should be able to suss out what's really going on, solve the mystery before the narrator/protagonist does. But not Beth's books - God love her, she drives me CRAZY with legitimate misdirection and intricately detailed subplots. This time, despite completely missing whodunnit, I even thought I'd found some holes in her plotting - but she managed to plug them all closed for me. (...)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good, and getting better,
By M. Droke-Dickinson "Aarons' Mommy" (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Fourth Wall (Mass Market Paperback)
I started reading this series because Ms. Saulnier is a friend of a friend of a ... Anyway, I didn't know what to expect when I started, but I've been impressed with her work. The Fourth Wall is a real step forward from Distemper (which was pretty good). Life in this college town is really believable, the story keeps you guessing, and the little twist that pops up in the middle regarding her already complicated love life is absolutely inspired.I thought it took too long for the story to finally return to the events referred to in the opening, but it sure helped keep me hooked, so I guess Saulnier knew what she was doing. I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.
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