I find this a difficult book to review. On the one hand it was a good detective story with interesting plot twists on the other I struggled with the main character (Professor McCauley). There were several reasons for this:
a) Even by the end of book, which I believe is the first of a series I found myself not liking him at all. He was rude and arrogant and there appeared to be no reason for this. He would be behaving normally and then almost in the middle of a sentence would become rude and brusque
b) I couldn’t really work out what he did. He is portrayed as a professor of criminology who is called in to consult, yet he doesn’t appear to have any specific skill. He doesn’t take finger prints, examine trace evidence, create physiological profiles etc. all he does is look at a body / read reports and hey presto he comes up with the answers. Which even allowing for fictional heroism is a bit much to take
c) It was really hard to determine (See point b) if he was supposed to be a modern day Sherlock Holmes type character, that is one knows all and is better than everyone else or a serious modern day criminal scientist. The way the book is written I think the author is aiming for the latter but it comes across as the former although not really well done.
I appreciate that it was a relatively short novel and so there couldn’t have a long drawn out conclusion, but I felt we were going along slowly just developing the Dr Chandler character and then wham! the solution is being presented and it was all over.
Will not be reading more by this author as there are better and more enjoyable detective characters out there.
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