Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (1992) - Plot & Excerpts
The book starts off with a fairly decent mystery, two oldsters vanishing without a trace, foul play is suspected. Then the writer fills most of the book with an autobiographical novel (which is by itself not that interesting), finishing up with a few chapters that take up where the story left off. Because the two detectives have no understanding of fiction, the narrative sends them awry; the reader will get the mystery long before the professionals. As far as detective work, we have a sergeant who can't seem to ask the right questions, and a chief inspector whose greatest contribution to the case is nearly killing himself with a chainsaw while cutting a limb from a felled tree. I've read other of Radley's mysteries, and they should not really be judged by this one.
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