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09/21/2007: ""Murder @ Work" - a review"
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"Murder @ Work"
by Yvonne Eve Walus
Echelon Press, 2004
ISBN: 1-59080325-6
At amazon.com and fictionwise.com
(review by Stephen Clark, Editor, Mooted Publications)
In this mystery, the chief suspect becomes the detective as she tries to prove her innocence and track down the real murderer in a race against time. To attempt to solve this mystery she must use her excellent mathematical ability.
Yvonne Eve Walus has taken the unusual approach of giving readers the prime suspect in the first couple of pages. Even before you have finished the first chapter, you can feel completely confident that Christine killed her boss. The story focuses mainly on Christine’s life and thoughts, so you get a real feeling for how badly she hates her boss, but did she kill him?
You also gain brief glimpses into the thoughts and psyche of the other main characters and by doing so the author is able to introduce motives that Christine herself is not aware of. These add not only to the believability of the characters themselves but to the many twists that this mystery takes. If it wasn’t Christine, there are many other suspects.
Murder @ Work is a very hard book to put down, and is a great weekend read. The chapters are short and you quickly make progress. The characters are engaging, and well constructed, the plot is more complex than it first seems, and it will have you guessing until the last page.
There are good insights into the new South Africa and the old one plus the people who have failed to make the transition between the two. Some good humour and Walus’s unusual style makes for an entertaining, fascinating and riveting mystery.
Yvonne Eve Walus on Friday, September 21st 2007 @ 03:35 AM GMT [link]