Chickenfeed
This is Minette Walters' contribution to an adult literacy project called "Quick Reads" and it runs 121 pages in largish print and baldish language. Not that I have anything against true crime, although I find the usual banality of real wrong-doers, as opposed to their fictional counterparts, to be a bit depressing and not nearly as entertaining. Walters is a proficient enough writer, she's done her research, and she's done her best to dramatize this decidedly banal if historically inconclusive 1920s case. One cannot really get terribly interested in either the victim or the convicted murderer (who quite likely was not actually guilty of murder though he was no prize himself).I look forward with considerably more enthusiasm to the full-length Walters that is lurking somewhere in my to-read pile.
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