Dark Road by Doris Miles DisneyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
A fun period crime novel that I knew going in was never going to live up to the cover (which, to be fair, is an amazing cover--the drowning man, the screaming woman pulling her robe together, the giant hammer. What could really live up to the promise of that much danger?). Dark Road tells the tale of a beautiful woman who married a much older man, only to quickly realize that such a marriage is miserable. When she runs into an old flame, she contrives to escape her loveless marriage (through murder, obviously).
This is a fast read, and takes some unexpected, although ultimately believable, turns. It does lag a bit after the crime, and some of the relationships strain even my very forgiving sense of credulity, but for fans of pulp crime, this is a solid pick.
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