Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
From Goodreads: Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the case to discover that she may not have acted alone .
Corinne Woodrow was 15 when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents.
Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private investigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens the case. He discovers a town full of secrets and a community that has always looked after its own.
What I thought: This book had such a good story to it. It jumps back and forth between the present, where Sean Ward is running an investigation to try to figure out happened all those years ago, and the past, to what exactly happened. I love books that are like that because the story slowly unfolds and the detective is discovering it and you only get to know so much.
Unfortunately, I'm the type of reader that doesn't like a ton of in depth details, and this book is full of them. I found myself skimming parts, growing bored, wanting the meat of the story. I have a hard time with the way the characters spoke as well which lead to my boredom and skimming.
However, the last hundred pages were unputdownable. I stayed up late into the night to finish the book because I had to know what really happened.
I'll say that if you like a lot of detail in your reads with a really good story then this is for you. For me, it just didn't quite hit the mark. Like I said, the meat of the story was amazing and I really loved it. It was just hard to get to.
Corinne Woodrow was 15 when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their parents.
Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private investigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens the case. He discovers a town full of secrets and a community that has always looked after its own.
What I thought: This book had such a good story to it. It jumps back and forth between the present, where Sean Ward is running an investigation to try to figure out happened all those years ago, and the past, to what exactly happened. I love books that are like that because the story slowly unfolds and the detective is discovering it and you only get to know so much.
Unfortunately, I'm the type of reader that doesn't like a ton of in depth details, and this book is full of them. I found myself skimming parts, growing bored, wanting the meat of the story. I have a hard time with the way the characters spoke as well which lead to my boredom and skimming.
However, the last hundred pages were unputdownable. I stayed up late into the night to finish the book because I had to know what really happened.
I'll say that if you like a lot of detail in your reads with a really good story then this is for you. For me, it just didn't quite hit the mark. Like I said, the meat of the story was amazing and I really loved it. It was just hard to get to.
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