Review: This Thing of Darkness by Barbara Fradkin

[miko]

This Thing of Darkness is the 7th in the Inspector Green mystery series.

The books continue to be well written mysteries, but this one felt... staged. The author really seems to want to tie in all her main characters in every book, and directly to the mystery, such that it's honestly getting a bit repetitive. Inspector Green is Jewish, so of course there's a connection to the Jewish community (the victim, who also reminds him of his ailing father, because that's another thing she likes to mention all the time)... his wife is a nurse at the mental hospital, so the suspect is a patient at said hospital...

I don't know. It didn't feel good. It felt like watching a TV show - where you can predict what's happening just based on "this person had a speaking role" or "they mentioned this unnecessarily". I don't normally feel too strongly about it, but it grated on this one.