Dans Mon Catalogue

Paperback

Published July 1, 2021 by Viper.

ISBN:: 9781788165303

(1 review)

There is a mystery to solve in the small town of Lockwood. It starts with the arrival of two secretive newcomers, and ends with a tragic death. Roderick Tanner QC has assigned law students Charlotte and Femi to the case. Someone has already been sent to prison for murder, but he suspects that they are innocent. And that far darker secrets have yet to be revealed... Throughout the amateur dramatics society's disastrous staging of All My Sons and the shady charity appeal for a little girl's medical treatment, the murderer hid in plain-sight. Will Charlotte and Femi solve the case ? Will you ?

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valrus@bookrastinating.com reviewed The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Too bad only one of these people got murdered

4 stars

Content warning very vague plot arc information

It's called "The Appeal" because the layers of deception keep "a-peeling" back!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was half-tempted to go back and reread this immediately upon finishing, so effective were the multiple reveals in the book's last third. It would probably feel like a very different book if you read it with the knowledge of what's really going on — but all these characters are so unlikable in so many different ways that I didn't really want to subject myself to their two-faced, petty correspondences again. If you can get past that, this is a really well-constructed book.