The Couple on Cedar Close by Anna-Lou WeatherleyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I am loathe to even write a detailed review here, as this is yet another slightly less than average piece of crime fiction, coupled with a nod to domestic noir. The premise is fairly formulaic—Laurie Mills awakens after a drunken bender to find that she is covered in blood, her husband Robert upstairs with his throat slashed. The rest of the story follows detectives as they discover the truth behind Robert’s murder. Yeah. Been done, right? The writing is average, the characters are fairly flat and the ending is drawn out in an excruciating painful denouement. There’s just nothing here to make this book stand out amongst the hundreds of others that seem to be churned into publication, one after the next, in assembly-line fashion. I could rail on about the issues that this author attempted to address—incest, domestic abuse, child abuse, incompetent police, mental health...but to be honest, it wouldn’t add much to what I’ve already written. It’s not a “bad” book, it’s just a “familiar” book that didn’t for a single second fully engage me in the reading. 2.5 stars rounded to 3
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