A Shot in the Dark: A Twitten Mystery (A Constable Twitten Mystery)

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Cengage delighted at the pitch and in January of 2011, a mere nine months later, A Shot in the Dark hit bookshelves worldwide. Crystal is a man who is known to crush reputations and he is coming to witness a new, kitchen sink drama, “A Shilling in the Meter,” by Jack Braithwaite, which is everything he despises. He ends up with the famous but hopeless Inspector Steine and finds himself right in the middle of murder. I’m trying to put into words what an insanely good book A Shot in The Dark is and what it did to me, so forgive me if this review seems to be a vomit of incoherent thoughts.

I was also put off by how heavily AA and NA (and, by extension, the language common to those organizations) were featured in this book. It’s a complex romance but also one that is fun to watch as two messy but loveable characters fall for each other. Steine (pronounced STEEN by the way, he'd like yoWith Crystal forthright on his opinions of enfant terrible and decidedly angry Northern playwright, Jack Braithwaite, his panning of ‘A Shilling in the Meter’ is a foregone conclusion. I'm so thankful for the chance to read this early, because this was truly one of my most anticipated releases of the year. In her introduction, Truss mentions that this book, in addition to writing a police comedy serial for the BBC, she was hoping to gain membership in the Detection Club of London.

This follows 2 main characters who have a clandestine meet cute at a queer club on the heroine's first night back in New York.Like many people who are super smart he has a way of appearing condescending to lesser mortals and finds himself transferred regularly to different constabularies.

I'll start off with the fact that I really liked the kind of slice of life vibes here coupled with the themes of identity in the sense of both being recovering addicts and also there are themes of religion and belonging. But while they try to ignore their chemistry, they end up bonding and connecting over their addiction recovery and complicated families. despite her best efforts it seems intent on coming at her from every quarter, manifested in relics from a religious history she still surreptitiously guards close to her heart. It’s sorta just understood that there’s something there, and that their relationship is headed somewhere but it’s an understated sort of romantic journey, with Ely’s artistic journey and her recovery and reconnection to her religion taking center stage while Wyatt stands supportively by her side, dealing with a few hang ups of his own and occasionally bringing up the inappropriateness of their interactions due to their respective positions in this art program.His history with addiction, and his estranged relationship with his family was explored really well here.