Book: ‘An April Shroud’ by Reginald Hill – August 9th, 2019
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.09, 2019, under Books
An April Shroud by Reginald Hill
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
An odd trail for the author to take one his main characters, Dalziel. Author Hill does it only partly successfully. but compromises a lot of the character to do it.
Sadly the plot is pretty flimsy. The typical murder a Hill reader might expect is not clear until deep into the book. At that point it was obvious to me what was going on, but Hill strung it out to the a rather ridiculous ending that really didn’t make sense.
Hill had the entire structure of a very interesting story of a family. He should have set aside his policemen and just focused on the family and fleshed out the underlining family tale. There are so many characters into that part of the story, Hill could have developed another series.
To me, the marriage of the family story and the policemen doesn’t work well.
Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book: 5 out of 5 points.
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