15 May 2013

Martha Grimes. The Anodyne Necklace (1983)

     Martha Grimes. The Anodyne Necklace (1983) Seems like Grimes names her books after pubs. This one is the locus of a D&D style game that eventually provides the clue needed to recover an emerald necklace and solve a couple of murders. Well done, but Jury, the ‘tec, is oddly bland and empty. The other characters tend to be rather more 2D than most, so that the books fails to satisfy. As a police procedural, it doesn’t quite convince, either. A beach or airport read, not more. A few very irritating typos. *½ (2004)
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