Dead in the Water (Campbell and Carter Mystery)

by Ann Granger | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 1472204581 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingPlum-crazywing of Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on 7/23/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingPlum-crazywing from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, July 23, 2017
It is the wettest winter on record and as Christmas approaches the rivers burst their banks and the farmers' fields lie under several feet of water. In the village of Weston Saint Ambrose, a young girl's body is seen floating downstream and when it becomes stuck under the jetty at a reclusive writer's home, the author is alarmed to discover that he recognises the victim of a brutal murder...

Journal Entry 2 by wingPlum-crazywing at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, March 9, 2018
Book four in the "Campbell & Carter series & to be honest I didn't find it much improvement on book three....my review of which was " A reasonable enough read but this series always seems a little lack- lustre to me. It's missing both the charm of the Mitchell & Markby series & the likeable relationship between the characters. The storyline is ok but all the characters are a bit two dimensional & there's no chemistry between the Campbell & Carter. ...& the same pretty much goes for this one too.

The storyline itself is okay. There were one or two moments where my interest perked up but on the whole I found myself skim reading, not a good sign that a book is as absorbing as it should be - I want to be gripped! I did find myself smiling over Carter worrying about having a "spud" in his socks, haven't heard that term for donkeys but it's a bit sad that's about the highlight of the tale for me!

It's a shame because I honestly don't know why this series just doesn't grip me like others by this author. So will I give book five a go? As I used to adore the Fran Varady series & have read some of Mitchell & Markby ones over & over I somehow feel I owe it to Granger not to give up, so yes I guess I will but ONLY if I happen across one, I certainly won't be making an effort to track a copy down.

Released 5 yrs ago (9/6/2018 UTC) at Brigantes Bar & Brasserie OBCZ / Meetup Venue in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 4 by Chuggypig at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Picked up at the September York Bookcrossing meetup.

Journal Entry 5 by Chuggypig at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, October 19, 2018
Oh my gosh. I really enjoy murder mysteries. I’m quite happy to read trashy books – I’ve enjoyed murder mysteries themed around knitting and quilting before now. But this book was awful!

It's the first book I've read by Granger, who seems an expert of the ‘tell, don’t show’ school, and to call the characters two-dimensional does injustice to straight lines. She’s obviously a lover of the golden age mysteries, and this book has a similar ‘cosy’ feel, but that just doesn’t work when you’re writing in the present day. The police investigation that Campbell and Carter carry out would be so flawed! And I just couldn’t put that to one side. And, sin of sins, the suspects are all part of a writing group. This book had the feeling of being a product from a writing group, and it all just made me cringe. I read it all the way through, and I rather wish I hadn’t.

Released 5 yrs ago (12/18/2018 UTC) at Brigantes Bar & Brasserie OBCZ / Meetup Venue in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 7 by LouiseB79 at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Picked up at the York BookCrossing meetup.

Journal Entry 8 by LouiseB79 at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, January 12, 2019
SPOILERS FOLLOW

This one really didn't work for me. I enjoyed the first third of it, in a mindless sort of way, but the suspension of disbelief required of the reader from that point onwards was just too much.

For example, why did the exclamation mark-loving coppers settle on the writers' group as their main set of suspects? Because they had once been to the pub in which the victim used to work and some of them knew her by name. And that's meant to be suspicious in a small village community? They didn't think it was worth speaking to anyone else who was in the pub on that or any other night? It wasn't even the night the victim was killed. This bothered me throughout the whole book. I was waiting for it to turn out that the police were on completely the wrong track but of course, the police don't make major procedural errors in cosy mystery land, and eventually the killer unmasks herself...

Yes, herself. Despite female murderers, acting alone and under nobody else's influence, being vanishingly rare, here we have yet another one. To add insult to injury, this one is motivated by sexual jealousy and is described throughout as "batty". You would have hoped for a bit more sensitivity of language in this day and age.

Not a success and not the sort of thing that would motivate me to seek out more by the same author.

Released 5 yrs ago (2/26/2019 UTC) at Brigantes Bar & Brasserie OBCZ / Meetup Venue in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 10 by LNicoll at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, April 8, 2019
Fun murder mystery - although I felt that the plot got a bit lost sometimes in side stories.

Journal Entry 11 by LNicoll at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, April 8, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (4/23/2019 UTC) at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 12 by Ginyorden at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, June 24, 2019
Eh, I didnt think it was as bad, but the main detectives were lacking in definable characters, and the dead young woman does come across as a very generic tale....

Journal Entry 13 by Ginyorden at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, June 24, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (6/25/2019 UTC) at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 14 by wingDelticwing at York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
One of several books I picked up yesterday at Brigantes. Surely it can't be as bad as most people think!

Released 4 yrs ago (7/20/2019 UTC) at City of Leeds Museum Café and LFL in Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 16 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Thursday, August 1, 2019
Found in a museum cafe in Leeds, took on holiday to Bulgaria, nice little holiday read.

Journal Entry 17 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Obzor, Burgas Bulgaria on Friday, August 9, 2019
Found in Sunrise Blue Magic resort, Obzor, Bulgaria. Not read it yet but take it to Spain in a few weeks as my holiday read, see who finds it there.

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