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Perfectly Pure and Good

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Frances Fyfield is master of moody mysteries in tone of grey. This second novel with Sarah Fortune has the usual exploration of convoluted relationships and emotions that fom the core of the mystery. Key among these is the feelings that draw into places we know we should not go, but can't help. Tight and suspenseful, this demonstrates why Fyfield is head and shoulders above most other writers of this kind of dark suspense.

This is not the first novel that I have read by Fyfield. I had first read Blind Date and enjoyed it quite a bit. On the strength of that, I picked up Perfectly Pure and Good. I was really looking forward to reading it.

What a difference between the two books. I thought that Perfectly Pure and Good was really wretched. The plot was unbelievable; was there anyone who did not see the big surprise in the plot coming a mile away? The main character was even more unbelievable-- a beautiful spontaneous lawyer who solves problems by sleeping with people. She even sleeps with the obnoxious mildly sadistic characters, which was disturbing on a number of levels. It was not offensive, precisely. It was just plain silly.

Fyfield did better with the male characters in the book-- the only reason that I gave this two stars instead of just one.

Skip this one and read something from another Fyfield series. I sincerely hope that this book and not Blind Date was the anomaly.