A Cadger’s Curse by Diane Gilbert Madsen
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
It’s pretty bad when you start a book and realize that the author, in her anxiety to introduce you to a character, decides to introduce the same details about her character more than once within the first few pages. Yes, I get that DD McGil is 38 years old. Thanks for reminding me.
I don’t really know what I was expecting when I picked out this book – but if I’d known the book was a knock-off of Stephanie Plum in Janet Evanovich’s series I would have said, “thanks, but no thanks”. This is the story of DD McGil (No, her name doesn’t stand for anything dirty, just Daphne December). She’s an insurance investigator (see: Make-shift P.I.) and has the quirky Aunt (much like Stephanie’s Grandmother), the same parental relationship with her mother and even issues with her car.
The mystery was only just engaging enough to make me feel as if I wanted to find out “who done it” but even that was nipped in the bud as I realized about 60% in I knew who did it! Fully predictable, stuffed of blatant knock-offs and badly written, I know for sure I won’t be reading the sequel to this anytime soon.
