Kindly donated to the BookCrossing cause by the Red Cross Charity Shop in Kings Heath, who would rather the books were given away than recycled in a more permanent way!

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Fellow bookcrosser Secundus recommended Ben Elton, so I decided I'd have to read one of his novels too. Since I'm in Birmingham right now, visiting AlmarnaTiaam, I thought I'd find one in one of the many charity bookshops. But before I could even begin to start looking properly I found this one at the OBCZ at the Kitchen Garden Café (which is great, by the way)! :)
TBR - then probably travelling on to Secundus who has already become a Ben Elton addict of sorts...

A really, really good read! Once started, I got hooked very quickly and couldn't do anything else till I knew who dunnit. There was also one big surprise in store for me: I'd thought this would be a comic detective novel - then it turned out to be, well, humourous, yes, for sure...but also quite shocking. In particular the detailled depictions of extreme school bullying really got to me. In the end, what I found most disturbing were not the murder rooms, but rather the cruelty schoolchildren are capable of (and I don't think the writer exaggerated much - if at all)...

Will ask Secundus whether he has read this one - if not, that's where it's going to travel. :)

I've already read and very much enjoyed Ben Elton's novel "Chart Throb", which is about the media business involved to run a show like american idol (or Starmania, as the austrian pendant is called nowadays).

A friend of mine promised me to pass me another book of him, but anathema-device was faster with this one. ;)

This one is the best book of Ben Elton, that I've read up to now.

Especially the difference between the detective's self awareness and reality teaches a lesson (which we conveniently forget about 2 days after we finished the book, in order to dwell on our accustomed self-pity ;)

Sent it to vienna, as anathema-device requested. :)

Arrived safely in Vienna. Thanks a lot for this trade!
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Read:October 2015

A novel about the very important topic of bullying, in particular bullying between teenagers (although abusive behaviour by a partner is also a side-theme). Some eccentric murder cases are presented here, and after the third or so the pattern is made clear to Det. Edward Newson. Each one of the murdered ppl has been a bully in his youth (and some have never grown out of it) and died the same way he/she once tormented a classmate.
Although the topic is taken just as serious as it is, at the same time the book is quite funny and entertaining to read, although not laughing out loud funny but it does have a very dry humour.

I'm a fan of Ben Elton and have read + enjoyed some of his other books and can highly recommend this one as well!

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