Status Updates From Höllenkalt

I’m finding the financial side of this distracting. Even in 2015, Swiss banks had much better password security than this. Certainly not a single, unchanging password that you could copy and reuse. Agatha Christie used the same money laundering trick in ‘At The Bertram’s Hotel’ in 1965. It may still work but it stretches plausiblity for a woman who tracks money for a living to need to have this trick explained.

This would make good TV. You’d get to keep the plot, bring the scenery alive and rely on the actors to add depth to the characters that the novel gives only a seriface view of.

Most of this works in a I-don’t-have-to-listen-very-hard-to-keep-up way. The mild lust/romance pieces feel like a set of going-through-the-motions clichés with no individuality to them.

Still, I do want to find out how the plot works out.