Scot in a Trap by Catriona McPherson

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"A mysterious object the size of a suitcase, all wrapped in bacon and smelling of syrup, can mean only one thing: Thanksgiving at the Last Ditch Motel. This year the motel residents are in extra-celebratory mood as the holiday brings a new arrival to the group - a bouncing baby girl. But as one life enters the Ditch, another leaves it. Menzies Lassiter has only just checked in. When resident counsellor Lexy Campbell tries to deliver his breakfast the next day, she finds him checked out. show more Permanently. Shocking enough if he was a stranger, but Lexy recognises that face. Menzies was her first love until he broke her heart many years ago. What's he doing at the Last Ditch? What's he doing dead? And how can Lexy escape the fact that she alone had the means, the opportunity - and certainly the motive - to kill him?" -- show less

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I did not like her previous book something fierce so was hesitant to try this one but decided to give it another go. I shouldn't have. Everything I did not like about the other book was in this one: overly complicated, convoluted sentences that rendered entire passages incomprehensible and all snark. And it's not just the MC. It was everybody in this book! It grew tiresome fast. Akin to being in the same room with a bunch of obnoxious teens thinking they're all that.

But, at least this time around the mystery was somewhat intriguing and the story didn't drag it being only 228 pages but still it took me a week to finish because I kept putting it down. Maybe I just don't like the author's writing style. YMMV.

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Jun 2, 2023

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