Saturday, November 15, 2025

2025 book 206

 Kate Wilhelm’s Death Qualified

I bought a novel by Wilhelm a while ago that won both the Hugo and the Locus awards, but then I saw she also has a mystery series and I was in the mystery mood! This felt unusual to me—it’s long and slow and really dives deep on all the characters. It’s also a courtroom drama! Anyway, the story here involves a woman accused of murdering the husband who abandoned her seven years ago—but the reader knows he was the victim of some kind of weird psychological experiment. And it’s also the story of the woman who agrees to take the case, despite having sworn off the law. I definitely thought the end dragged on too long, and was completely over the top, and was also pretty upsetting. Not sure I’ll read any more in this series. B.


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