Helpful Score: 2
Displeasing, disorganized book. It's as if someone had printed out the author's first draft, dropped the folder it was in, then published the contents in whatever order they were scraped back into the folder. It begins with an Introduction, in which some characters we know nothing about have a confusing interaction. This would have been more useful about 20 pages along, when we know who's who. Then there are five Parts (chapters); the final Part starts with a lot of background information on the characters' earlier lives, which would have been useful earlier or could even have been omitted altogether. As for the 'Euro Crime' series title, the crime is sort of stuffed in Part Five, as if to justify the whole thing. Before that, it's a bunch of unlikely people (i.e., a Jesuit oncologist who enthusiastically breaks his vows of Poverty and Chastity; no evidence on the Obedience one) behaving in an improbable manner. Hard to believe the author of the Van Der Valk and Castang books wrote this thing.
