LENNY MARKS GETS AWAY WITH MURDER
Kerryn Mayne
In my mind, we’ve already done this.
Lenny is not the first person you invite to a party or the first person you think of when you imagine having a good time. She spends more of her time at home going through her days according to one well-planned routine after another.
Lenny is a 5th-grade teacher and homebody who prefers the planned to the unexpected. She spends most of her days grading papers and playing scrabble against imaginary opponents.
One day a letter arrives that sets Lenny on a perilous path that has us questioning why Lenny is the way she is. What happened to her to make her become the woman she is living the existence she does?
There is a word association game that Lenny is plagued with playing and as readers, we are also subjected to this quirk. That was unfortunate. It was extremely distracting and took away from my enjoyment of the book.
I cannot imagine this on audiobook!
Outside of that, I thought the storyline was basic and had been passed around quite a bit. LENNY MARKS GETS AWAY WITH MURDER was relatively unoriginal and Lenny as a character has been done a few times over. There really wasn’t much left besides the story and the characters, as the writing wasn’t that impressive either.
It didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t do much right. I ended up rating it right at a three and I think you will too.
“There must be more to life than this!”
Queen
Thank you to Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy!
LENNY MARKS GETS AWAY WITH MURDER…⭐⭐⭐
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