For 2024 the aim remains to post a review at least every other Friday and to complete the Bookpacking reading journey.

26 September 2014

The Perfect Murder – Peter James

This is one of the Quick Read series where well known authors produce short fast-paced novellas to engage readers new to reading or just to them. I fall into the latter category and picked this as a first taste of Peter James.

Victor and Joan Smiley have been married for twenty years, and it is clear that despite keeping up appearances they have both had enough and want rid of their spouse. Just leaving or divorcing doesn’t seem an option, maybe smacking of failure, so instead each secretly plans to kill the other.

Who will strike first and how will it pan out?

Finding out is entertaining enough and Peter James keeps the twists and turns going right to the end.


It is light reading, as intended, but good fun and it has put his full size detective fiction on my radar. 

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