A young woman goes to Venice and is accused of murdering a young man in her tour group. Her co-workers back home read her letter and try to puzzle it together in a very irreverent way. I don't know what I was expecting but I had trouble with this book. I can certainly see the humor that is very British and over the top. The story is told through a series of letters from the woman to them amidst much commentary and speculation from the co-worker group. The language was hard for me to get into. It seemed very pompous and annoying for a book set in the 1980s and I kept thinking I was in the wrong era. Their commentary and speculation was an interesting way to tell the story but also fell flat at the same time (mostly I think because of the language and run on sentences). A lot of people really love this book and I will say it was different from a lot of detective fiction out there. I just felt like it was more of a chore than a pleasure to get through. As for the mystery itself -- it was interesting and certainly had a dramatic reveal.
Terri
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