理由

Read something else by this author instead...

The problem with this book I think is that it's just too long (nearly 700 pages of densely printed text in my copy) and it feels like a slog to read through. It's an interesting idea to structure the novel as a sort of journalistic examination of the mystery with interviews with lots of people who were affected by it, but in practice it means that the author keeps introducing new groups of characters, giving them massively overdetailed backstories, and then moving on to a new group of characters

For language difficulty this book is pretty standard for grammar, but the vocabulary is fairly extensive especially as relates to both finance and real estate (the murders take place in a luxury condo). Despite technically being a book about murder, there is relatively little crime vocabulary used.

This book has many, many characters and I suggest taking notes (or using the ones I wrote for the book club) to keep track of them. Often, however, people are introduced, given extensive background,