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Mike Finn
is 78% done
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.
— Apr 20, 2026 07:02AM
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Mike Finn
is 50% done
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.
— Apr 20, 2026 02:14AM
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.
Mike Finn
is 33% done
The writing style is strangely arms-length, almost stage directions / notes to actors rather than the intimacy of conventional narrative and exposition in a crime novel
The story is carrying me on curiosity rather than emotional engagement.
The mix of Icelandic and British culture also helps to keep my interest.
The narrator does a good job but I’m still tempted to run the audiobook at a faster speed.
— Apr 19, 2026 01:02PM
The story is carrying me on curiosity rather than emotional engagement.
The mix of Icelandic and British culture also helps to keep my interest.
The narrator does a good job but I’m still tempted to run the audiobook at a faster speed.