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Layover for Murder
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1932. While traveling home to Hollywood on a luxury passenger train after being left at the altar, free-spirited Ginny Weltermint, who writes screenplays using a male pseudonym, unwittingly becomes involved with a murder when she stumbles across a body. The train stops in a small village so that the murder can be investigated. At first Ginny clashes with the surly, old-school detective who comes aboard to solve the murder, until they build a rapport as Ginny helps him solve the case before she can become a victim.
Written in a classic 1930s style.
1932. While traveling home to Hollywood on a luxury passenger train after being left at the altar, free-spirited Ginny Weltermint, who writes screenplays using a male pseudonym, unwittingly becomes involved with a murder when she stumbles across a body. The train stops in a small village so that the murder can be investigated. At first Ginny clashes with the surly, old-school detective who comes aboard to solve the murder, until they build a rapport as Ginny helps him solve the case before she can become a victim.
Written in a classic 1930s style.
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 5, 2019
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E.R. Fallon
17 books11 followersBest-selling crime author E.R. Fallon knows well the gritty city streets of which she writes. She studied criminology and was mentored by a leading advocate for the family members of homicide victims. E.R. is currently working on her next gangland book, Tommy's Turn, with her writing partner, KJ. The New York Times best-selling author Da Chen has said E.R. writes the kind of stories that "We stay up all night to finish."
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
March 12, 2020
Trite, cliched, clunky writing -- UGH. Very disappointed-
October 8, 2019
Sadly not a series I'll be reading again
The plot itself was a good one. Murder on a train, another murder, a girl running away and a possible criminal connection. However the tone set by the writing style really put me off. Where was the feeling, the emotion? It read (at least to me) as if the whole thing was in monotone. As too the characters didn't really like any of them the detective had a chauvinistic viewpoint and the heroine (who was supposed to be trying to get over being left at the alter only a few weeks ago) was haughty, full of herself and a bit too loose for me. Surely she wouldn't start anything with another man just weeks after getting very publicly dumped.
As to the fun. Sorry but I missed it.
The plot itself was a good one. Murder on a train, another murder, a girl running away and a possible criminal connection. However the tone set by the writing style really put me off. Where was the feeling, the emotion? It read (at least to me) as if the whole thing was in monotone. As too the characters didn't really like any of them the detective had a chauvinistic viewpoint and the heroine (who was supposed to be trying to get over being left at the alter only a few weeks ago) was haughty, full of herself and a bit too loose for me. Surely she wouldn't start anything with another man just weeks after getting very publicly dumped.
As to the fun. Sorry but I missed it.
December 14, 2019
Poorly written
This book seems to have been written by people not yet graduated from high school. It is poorly written. The first several pages consist of an inspector being suspicious of the woman who found the body, despite her protestations of innocence. Next there are people judging each other and vouching for each other almost instantly based on their perception of the person's wealth, as wealth is apparently an indicator that one is above reproach, or trustworthy, etc. Repetitive, monotonous, not very descriptive, and just not very good.
This book seems to have been written by people not yet graduated from high school. It is poorly written. The first several pages consist of an inspector being suspicious of the woman who found the body, despite her protestations of innocence. Next there are people judging each other and vouching for each other almost instantly based on their perception of the person's wealth, as wealth is apparently an indicator that one is above reproach, or trustworthy, etc. Repetitive, monotonous, not very descriptive, and just not very good.
January 24, 2020
I gave up after about 5 chapters. This book comes from the 'if an idea is good, it will be even better if it is repeated' school of writing. Certain plot points are way over-explained; the heroine has a secret career which is referred to very frequently - and she shares this 'secret' with several people she has only know for a few minutes - some secret. Poor research - the use of 'Ms' to address an unmarried woman was not commonly used in the 1930's when this book supposedly takes place. I could go on and on.
December 2, 2019
Adequate
Set in a train from NYC to California, murder occurs. Characters all right but rather shallow. Since train is halted until murderer found, plot seemed to drag and was rather tagged. I like this time period and wanted to enjoy it but found it disappointing
Set in a train from NYC to California, murder occurs. Characters all right but rather shallow. Since train is halted until murderer found, plot seemed to drag and was rather tagged. I like this time period and wanted to enjoy it but found it disappointing
December 27, 2019
The first rule of fiction writing - well, any narrative writing - is "Show, don't tell." These authors didn't learn it. Plot had promise, but the writing was stodgy and the characters thin.
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