Tool & Die

by Sarah Graves

ONE LINE SUMMARY: In the 8th installment of the Home Repair is Homicide series, Jake Tiptree handles an influx of long-lost family while helping her housekeeper with an ex who turns up dead.

Now that I’ve finally caught up with the series, I can stop reading them. These are the kinds of books I read when I can’t find what I really want at the library. The writing isn’t that bad, but the characters still seem too stilted to be real, and some of the writing quirks –

–in which Jake interjects thoughts into an already ongoing monologue, in this manner –

–gets tiresome.

Nearly every paragraph ends with a minor cliffhanger, and we now get home repair tips sporadically thrown into the middle of chapters (often in the middle of a sentence). Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll only pick up further entries in this series if I’m really desperate for something to read.

Posted by: ssjane | April 24, 2005 | 9:43 pm
Posted in: Books | Mystery/Thriller