The Last Drop of Blood
(Katie Maguire #11)
by Graham Masterton
thriller
copyright 2020
not read in May 2022
rated 3/10: so bad it's embarrassing
To be fair, this is a book which I would normally not even open. I read f&sf. I was sucked in by the author's past record of horror. As far as I read this book has no horror. Just awful embarrassment.
You know the way it's possible to get confused by multiple characters. Is Smith the policeman? Is Jones the criminal? That sort of thing. Not in this book... There is Garda O'Smith, Garda O'Jones, Crime Scene Chief Investigator O'Hanlon... full titles all the way -- with a heavy emphasis on pushing the Irishness of it all. They don't drive on roads, they drive on bodeens... or some such Irish sounding word, I can't bear to look back at the book to remind myself of the exact word.
Oh, and the police drive at 100 along those country roads. I've seen Irish country roads. Unless the word really means highway, any speed above 20 would be suicidal.
A few deaths and we're into what passes for plot. The heroine discusses a current court case with the judge, who happily forgets all rules of confidentiality and tells what should be kept quiet. Because it's a court case if not because the judge is gossiping about a person who has just been killed. A person that this judge was sleeping with, by the way. Before the killing, that is (it's not horror).
Then we have a quick precis of the heroine's past life. In the last ten books she has had affairs, been married and divorced, had her boyfriend kill himself... wow.
Back to the dead judge (another ex-lover of the heroine). Was he killed by the O'Flynns or by the O'Riordans or by the O'MGs? I find I'm not really interested
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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