Detective Rizzoli and Medical Examiner Isles are back again to solve another murder, and this one with all its twists and turns is a pretty standard usual fare. Still it was just the distraction I needed this week and I liked the African back story, I wasn't sure where it was going until about half way through the story.
I am a bit over the formulaic murder/thriller. Gruesome death, hunt the killer, get trapped by the killer, killer dies in the last twenty pages. I am always on the look for something different, but maybe I won't like it when I find it. 3/5
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I wonder why deaths in murder-mysteries must be gruesome these days. Is it not bad enough that someone is killed; it must be horrible? I like the Agatha Christie type mysteries from the 1920s and '30s, when murders were almost incidental to the puzzles, yet there was still heart and character in the stories.
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