“Don’t judge a book by its cover”. This time I did, intrigued by the design of a closed book “Bad Memories: Do not open” and, of course, I opened it… just before midnight. I read it at one sitting, captured in the head of John Miller.
The author paints pictures with words. He didn’t describe the endless monotony of the pill-bottling lab where John worked: I was there, this was my reality. Julie was the wife John loved: the wife for whose sake he turned down what he believed to be a fishing weekend with Arthur; Julie would have dinner on the table. Julie had done nothing all day but read magazines and eat candy. That was the moment for frustrated anger to become murder, surely? No, but Arthur is dead in circumstances the police dismiss as suicide.
Mr Sandler’s characters don’t jump off the page, they draw in the reader, each, however minor, intensely vivid and always cleverly different. “The illness of his skin.” His broken nose – “the gristle tip of a chicken’s fleshless breast”.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2015
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- Bookie NerdieReviewed in Canada on 24 March 2017
The blurb could use some work and the cover is ...
