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Sep 29, 2008

The Murder Book

Small but perfectly formed book, left me with an eerie feeling. Martinez' last book 'The Oxford Murders' explored mathematical puzzles which might or might not help to solve a series of bizzare murders and save the next victim. This one is more about cause and effect.

The author - our narrator - gets a desperate phonecall which plunges him into an impossible position. He fell for Luciana over the course of a month, 10 years ago. At the end of the that month she went back to her employer, rival novelist Kloster who according to Luciana is slowly extracting revenge for the destruction of his marriage by killing her family off one by one.

Is she mad? Is Kloster - now a best-selling novelist - plotting murder in his spare time or does his writing trigger an action in real world. Kloster's working on his masterpiece and it's going to be a killer.

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