Very
much the Hitchcock genre: person sees a murder through a window, isn’t
believed because of drinking and psychological problems and after a
spell of not believing it herself, has to prove it. I did hope it was
going to veer from this but it didn’t. Even the eventual murderer came
apparent fairly early on. I also felt the last dramatic scenes were
written very much with an upcoming film in mind - especially the
climbing onto the roof and the hand on the ankle.
Her
being a child psychologist didn’t add much for me, but I did like the
back story of her family, and also GrannyLizzie. (But when her password
is changed, who do you suspect but the youth. Especially with constant
refrain of, such a nice boy).
It
was a page turner, but not particularly original. Anna was over-soppy.
The police sloppy. David stroppy. (They should have asked him to produce
the earring. What was his motivation to keep quiet ?)
This meeting was held on Zoom video conferencing software with 6 of us 'present'. It went well.
We forgot to rate the book, but most people enjoyed it I think.
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