Tannat

Series: Inspector Karen Pirie #1

This book just felt long. We spent way too long in the 1970s when the original crime occurred, and it ended up feeling like wasted time because of the 25-year skip that happens almost 200 pages into it. Having finished the book, I can see why the author did it, but I had trouble getting over that feeling of wasted time. Yes, there were twists that I didn’t entirely see coming (although several key ones had occurred to me), but I spent a lot of my time rolling my eyes and thinking the characters were doing stupid things and not knowing where the author was going to force the text to go.  I’m not even particularly intrigued by Karen Pirie because she seemed as bad as the rest of them.

I’m not sure if my opinion would have been softened if I hadn’t read this in translation, but sometimes you just have to go with what’s available at the library. I suppose I did read to the end to find out who did it, so that’s something to say for it. I did have a hard time remembering who was who, real-name-wise, because they always went by their nicknames.