The missing hours

The Missing Hours by Emma Kavanagh
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My feeling for this book changed few times.
From curiosity to being annoyed, to despair and willing to stop reading it, to finding funny side of the story and finally to some appreciation of author's effort.
What was funny?
At some stage I came to conclusion that the sister-brother team of detectives are just sloppy bureaucrats, who are spending time on reading irrelevant stories.
Actually I was wondering - what they were doing all that time?
There are numerous mentions how late it is, how tired and hungry they are, but not a hint what actually they were doing all that time?
Another point was, that I got impression that they missed few essential steps in their investigations and it looked to me that certain Olivier, who expected to be promoted to position now taken by one of main characters, woud have done the job much better.
I have to acknowledge lots of effort of the author to make the story very complicated and confusing. She succeeded - I was confused and had no will to go back and verify and cross reference facts and events.

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