Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The LAST DEAD GIRL by Harry Dolan ****

This was a pretty good murder mystery. It's in 1998, a guy, David Malone is living in some rinky dink town and is about to get married to Sophie until he sees and screws the very screwable Jana Fletcher. She pretty much does it with anyone with a penis. He, of course, ditches the future bride and tries to find out why Jana was killed to the extent that he moves into the dead girls apartment. She screws David, Luke, Warren. I'm surprised she needed clothing.

On her way to NYC to try to find her fame as an actress Jana meets up with a pair of brothers, one of which she has sex with. Consensual. Later the brothers, Eli & Luke, do bad things. There is also another pair of brothers which includes their wives and other misc. family members; Neil (a bad teacher) and Gary Pruett a jailbird.

So a pair of evil brothers made the book extremely difficult to follow because one minute you're in a flashback, the next in real time. It's so hard to follow over a period of days. Not many people can devote an entire day to one novel so this one is extra hard to get into, if it wasn't for the brothers, all the dead girls either related to the brothers or friends of the wives. One of them is in jail for killing his wife, which Jana was trying to figure out who the real killer was but really he belonged in jail just for being the brother of Neil who is entirely worse.

If it weren't for the time machine dragging me back and forth or the brothers and sisters, sisters in law, friends, multiple motives for murder I just couldn't give it 5 stars. It's a 4 and I'm being generous. It was so confusing I had to page backwards multiple times to see who was who and where in what time zone.

Good luck brave readers. It's ok, fast moving and could have liked it more.

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