![]() ![]() Thought the victim, the more I learned about him, wasn’t entirely likeable either. Most of the time the killer is often more sympathetic than the victim, and this was not the case. This is the only time I have not sympathised with the killer in her books. In some stories I haven’t, but with PD James, I have most of the time. And that’s what the crime story ought to do: the clues are fairly laid and the reader ought to arrive at the solution before the end logically. I was able to work it out before the reveal. As to the mystery: the clues definitely do their work. It was quite fun having a character of the same age as the reader to go along the mystery with. ![]() She’s smart, fun, incredibly brave, and she knows her way around. Cordelia is such a great character, it was impossible to not like her. PD James has left her mark on the detective genre for decades, and the introduction of Cordelia Gray is perhaps one of the bear things to come out the genre altogether. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |