I listened to The Murderer’s Son by Joy Ellis and it sucked. Everyone narrowed their eyes all the time, I’m amazed no one was banging into walls. At the end I guessed the killer two chapters before everyone else and had to sit through these squinty flatfoots bumbling about. There was also a really bizarre twist at the end that I hadn’t seen coming but was so inconsequential I was just like …huh.
They also spent a lot of the end of the book explaining why people did things which for a murder mystery I always feel means they didn’t do a good enough job in the rest of the book.
It was like, >!the girlfriend of the guy who thinks he did it has this workmate always hanging around and you’re supposed to think she’s up to something… I thought maybe she was an undercover journalist but at the end she was just the girlfriend’s long-lost mum, and when the policeman said to the mum ‘do you want to tell Girlfriend that she is your daughter’ she was like ‘nah I’m good’ and just left town. It was like ??? Why did that happen?!<
The antidepressant thing had me like ??? as well like, what a stupid drug to put on the black market. If you’d said they were all off their tits on Adderall or Ritalin I’d have been like oh yeah I guess.
The whole thing just left me feeling like I’d eaten a bad McDonalds but without the satisfaction of having eaten something. Boo Audible for advertising it at me, and boo Joy Ellis for writing something so average.