577 Followers
627 Following
Kaethe

Kaethe

"http://booklikes.com/widget/profile?id=27266&title=My Profile&bt&cr&on&la&nfr&nfg&ns&tb&bry&br&ra" scrolling="no" style="border-radius: 5px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 220px; height: 488px;" frameborder="0">

The Chalk Girl - Carol O'Connell

The Chalk Girl - Carol O'Connell

The whole Mallory series is entertaining as hell. It is also ridiculous in the way of many mysteries: an incredibly clever and personally wealthy person works for the NYPD, solving clever crimes without having to do any of the tedious work. Mallory is also beautiful, and immaculately groomed at all times. Also, all the wealthy people who don't work for the NYPD are horrible, really awful people who deserve whatever they get. As income inequality increases in the US I enjoy reading about horribly rich people coming to bad ends all the more. Shadenfreudalicious!

Other than that, the big selling point here is the charming Coco, a character with Williams syndrome, which enables Charles to explain it all to the reader. There is a bunch of other stuff going on, too: NYC politics, unrequited love, lots of music, a horrible case of bullying, etc. but the scenes with Coco are the best.

Personal copy