hmmm. I don't know if I liked this one or not. It kept me engrossed for sure. It wasn't an action packed book, but it was very interesting. I liked the way the murdered worked, and the detective's synaesthesia shows some interesting potential to solve later mysteries.The bad thing is that I couldn't remember his name for more than a minute - the man himself was pretty unmemorable to me. I didn't like his constant quoting from classical works, either. I think this must be a British thing, though, because many books I've read have the characters throwing around appropriate quotations and other characters getting the reference.I also am not sure how much I liked knowing the murderer. I found her methods fascinating and she was definitely creepy, but her motive was too easy to see.My final dislike is that I guessed how it would end about halfway through. technically, I did not finish this book. I liked the murder aspect and I found the murderer's character intriguing, but McCrery chose to alter perspective by chapter and I did not like Lapslie. I found the police side obnoxious and at times irrelevant. On a sidenote, the spelling is heavily influenced by British spellings which caught me off guard as I noticed extra letters and the mysterious disappearance of the letter "z".
What do You think about Core Of Evil (2009)?
A good British murder mystery. It had an odd lead detective and I liked the way it was written.
—jaze04
Interesting murder mystery, a page turner. Set in the UK. The book was hard to put down.
—Samstevenson97
