"Some Deaths Before Dying"
Written: Mar 14 '00
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Pros: Artistic insights on photography
Cons: The storyline never comes alive
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| jorn's Full Review: Dickinson, Peter |
I'm one of Peter Dickinson's biggest fans, and have read most of his dozens of mysteries, children's books, and odds'n'ends. Almost all of them were well enough written that they brought a tear to my eye at some point, and all of them included some interesting 'infotainment' aspect that raised them above their common genres.
This 1999 mystery uses photography as the infotainment-theme, and includes a haunting account of a gifted woman photographer obsessively documenting her own husband's funeral.
Her lifetime's archives of pictures become the clues by which, in her 80s, she solves an old murder mystery, with the added complication that she's become almost totally paralysed (like The Bone Collector, only much more artistically handled).
But all the same, I have to say this one is a failure, and I can't recommend it to anyone but completists. The storytelling lacks the forward momentum that normally makes PD's books genuine page-turners.
Recommended:
No
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Member: Jorn Barger
Location: Chicago, IL
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