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Under the Harrow: A Novel
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My brother and sister-in-law sent this in my Christmas present but I had already read it. Here's my review from when I read it in September:
Nora lives in London working as a landscaper's assistant and trying to write. Her sister, Rachel, is a nurse practitioner living in rural Oxfordshire. Nora visits her sister often and they seem quite close. So it is horrifically shocking for Nora to walk into her sister's house and find her murdered. Unable to continue her life until the murderer is found she moves into a nearby inn and dogs the police in their investigation. She suspects a man who did some plumbing at her sister's house the morning she was killed and she stalks him. Meanwhile the police are exploring other avenues including whether Nora herself killed her sister.
For a debut novel this was quite good and I expect the author will hone her craft more. However, I didn't think it was as good as all the blurbs on the covers and inside indicated and I wouldn't say it rivals Gone Girl as some of them indicated. For one thing, like a lot of first timers, there were too many people introduced to the point that I would have to go back and see how a person related to the murder or the investigation. For another thing, there could have been more explanation of some aspects and less of the interior dialogue of the main character. The ending seems almost plucked out of thin air and left me unsatisfied.
Nora lives in London working as a landscaper's assistant and trying to write. Her sister, Rachel, is a nurse practitioner living in rural Oxfordshire. Nora visits her sister often and they seem quite close. So it is horrifically shocking for Nora to walk into her sister's house and find her murdered. Unable to continue her life until the murderer is found she moves into a nearby inn and dogs the police in their investigation. She suspects a man who did some plumbing at her sister's house the morning she was killed and she stalks him. Meanwhile the police are exploring other avenues including whether Nora herself killed her sister.
For a debut novel this was quite good and I expect the author will hone her craft more. However, I didn't think it was as good as all the blurbs on the covers and inside indicated and I wouldn't say it rivals Gone Girl as some of them indicated. For one thing, like a lot of first timers, there were too many people introduced to the point that I would have to go back and see how a person related to the murder or the investigation. For another thing, there could have been more explanation of some aspects and less of the interior dialogue of the main character. The ending seems almost plucked out of thin air and left me unsatisfied.
I do not have this book in my possession. I know I passed it on to my sister soon after I read it and I'm pretty sure she never gave it back. So I am going to mark it travelling.
