FEATURED AUTHOR - Catalina Du Bois resides in the southwestern United States, where she finds inspiration from the enchanting landscapes of the desert. With a penchant for motorcycles, camping trips, and crafting romantic mysteries, Catalina is known for her candid and unfiltered writing style. Despite her reluctance to tout awards and accolades, Catalina's love for storytelling shines through in her works.
Recent comments: User reviews
There hardly is mystery in it and several of the story lines are rather old-fashioned to our modern minds.
So: not recommended to mystery lovers, but probably a must to Anna Katherine Green fans.
In these first parts of the Forsyte books the story is still very good. It becomes a bit less in the later books.
Is there anything more to be said? No. This is a must-read for everybody with a sense of literature.
It has all the ingredients of a good detective novel: Unexpected turns in the plot, putting you (and the detective, by the way) on the wrong leg and an unexpected ending, although "experienced" readers of the genre might not find it too unexpected. But remember that it is more than 100 years old and still a good read.
In the last few pages the secrets of the plot in "Monsieur Lecoq" are revealed. The rest is history, but necessary to understand things.
The bad news is, that you have to read the sequel "The Honor of the Name" to understand who did it and why!
Gaboriau can be regarded as the father of the modern detective novel, so you should read this anyway, if only for that reason, if you are interested in the genre.