Review #21 - The Craigslist Murders

Author: Brenda Cullerton

Rating: ★★1/2

Interior designer Charlotte Wolfe has dealings with the most unbelievably difficult clients in the upper strata of New York. She also comes from a difficult history with her own family. Every woman in upstate New York reminds her of her own mother. Not in a very good way. And what does she do to deal with these women living in their own personal make belief bubbles? She murders them.

As a mystery, there's really not much mystery surrounding this particular book. You know who the perpetrator is, you know who the possible victim pool is, the mommy issues are pretty much evident. It ends up classifying more as a chic lit than an actual mystery.

It can be quite entertaining in bits. The entire "bimbo"ness of the wives of the billionaires, their complete obliviousness of what is going on in the world, and their make belief problems, make for quite the laugh. However, while most chic lit books are entertaining all the way, this particular book, since it tried to be an out of the way mystery novel, failed to be gripping or entertaining, and turned out to be quite a drag.

The idea of finding the victim pool through Craigslist was great and innovative. However the execution for some odd reason didn't play out as well as it maybe should have.

Should one give it a read? As a light read, sure, why not. But don't expect too much of it.

#mystery #fiction #contemporary