Tuesday, November 20, 2007

2007 book 164

Michael Collins' The Death of a Writer
There's a lot going on in this book--a failed novelist/academic tries to kill himself, but a grad student mostly saves his life and then discovers a hidden masterpiece, which becomes a huge success until police realize there are remarkable similarities between the novel and an unsolved murder, at which point a detective with his own set of personal problems gets involved. The killer is glaringly apparent from very early on, whcih is at times frustrating, and the book is somehow even more grim than I thought it would be. Still, Collins does a good job of ratcheting up the tension and keeping the reader engaged. B.

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