Unholy City: A Book Review

Unholy City: A Book Review

I found this novel in the "New" section at the local library. I'm a big fan of suspense and murder/mysteries i've come to realize so this seemed right up my alley. This took me a long time to read because i'm going in and out of my wanting to read phase. A phase I loathe to the core to fall out of. That's a different story for a different blog though.

This book was rather interesting. It was about a double homicide outside of a vestry. A Team of detectives, Cordella, and Haggerty are put on the case to solve whether or not the double homicides were coincidental or connected and of course the murderer. As the story progresses skeletons are released from the closets of the parishioners and there are twists and turns behind every corner.

Carrie Smith, I discovered, is a very unique author. Her writing style is somewhat different and she is someone I would really like to know what is going through her head to come up with a religion meets crime novel. I suppose the title 'Unholy City' is a dead give away that it is of a religious nature but it is subtle. The only thing relatively religious about this book besides it's name is that the murder occurred in the garden of a church.

To be completely honest, I was impartial to the book. I couldn't really say it was amazing or that it was horrible. It's sitting on the thin grey line of indifference. I did however enjoy that it kept your curiosity to find out more about the characters and who might have been guilty to the victims' demise. The ending wasn't in a presumable manner, it was rather unexpected.

Would I recommend this book? no, probably not, and it took me forever to read because it wasn't really good at keeping my interest. Not to say others wouldn't like it. Personally though, wasn't that pleasant of a read for me.