Review Tuesday: The Hydrogen Murder: A Gloria Lamerino Mystery by Camille Minichino

I picked up a collection of mystery novels recently, which included The Hydrogen Murder by Camille Minichino.

When a scientist is murdered on the job, the police fights fire with fire by getting physicist Gloria Lamerino on the job.

This is a pretty simple murder mystery, the only complexity is that fact that it's egg-heads involved in the violence instead of the mob or spies. The book is a rather simple read despite all the technical jargon being tossed around. It felt like it was on a fifth grade reading level, tops. The writing style is rather unique, yet bordering on annoying. The author, Camille Minichino, is an older chatty brawd, so she made her heroine rather quite like herself. There's an enormous amount of sarcastic side thoughts from the first person, main character, Gloria Lamerino. It immediately felt annoying, like sitting next to a bunch of ladies gossiping at the water cooler, being dragged into their annoying chatty world. It also gets annoying as Gloria finds clues and purposely withholds them from her love interest, Detective Matt Gennaro. But it's light, and moves fast.

There appears to be a series of these "periodic table mysteries" by Minichino. I'm just shocked that people are so interested in what are dumbed-down smart-stories. I guess it's attractive to read a book quickly and feel no attachment to any of the characters. Not great, but not bad, by my reckoning, but I'm not going to go out of my way to acquire the entire series, that's for sure.  

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