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Book Review of The Appeal

The Appeal
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Helpful Score: 1


I liked it a lot -- wickedly funny -- until she went and spoiled it all by solving the mystery.

With such a build-up, it was almost inevitable that the ending was a disappointment. The epistolary format, and the slowest of slow boils, was a brave choice by Hallett, but it made it hard to care whodunnit, or even particularly care what had been done ...