Various Whodunnits
Feb. 25th, 2009 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrI've been on a bit of a murder mystery bender recently.
Books:
"Grave Sight" and "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris: Good character study and drama, painfully predictable cliched mystery. Both centre on a young woman with a psychic gift which causes more trouble than good and are nicely understated and realistic given their fantastical elements. "Dead Until Dark" is also a vampire romance and this aspect was done pretty well, I liked that the fact that he's older and more old fashioned was dealt with sensibly rather than being totally fetishised (he gives a talk at the Civil War society meeting. How awesome is that?) The basis for the "True Blood" tv show.
Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis: Fairly straight forward but not entirely shallow chick lit mystery. Engaging, funny, and a good mystery. Much less interesting characters and premise than the Charlaine Harris books though.
TV
Psych: A good natured layabout has fantastic Holmes-esque observational abilities, but any time he tries to solve a mystery he gets suspected for "knowing too much". So he starts a psychic detective agency with his (much more sensible) best friend. Very silly, and the mysteries are pretty crap, but light and fluffy and funny.
Bones: More police procedural than mystery, but I love it anyway.
Books:
"Grave Sight" and "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris: Good character study and drama, painfully predictable cliched mystery. Both centre on a young woman with a psychic gift which causes more trouble than good and are nicely understated and realistic given their fantastical elements. "Dead Until Dark" is also a vampire romance and this aspect was done pretty well, I liked that the fact that he's older and more old fashioned was dealt with sensibly rather than being totally fetishised (he gives a talk at the Civil War society meeting. How awesome is that?) The basis for the "True Blood" tv show.
Sex, Murder, and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis: Fairly straight forward but not entirely shallow chick lit mystery. Engaging, funny, and a good mystery. Much less interesting characters and premise than the Charlaine Harris books though.
TV
Psych: A good natured layabout has fantastic Holmes-esque observational abilities, but any time he tries to solve a mystery he gets suspected for "knowing too much". So he starts a psychic detective agency with his (much more sensible) best friend. Very silly, and the mysteries are pretty crap, but light and fluffy and funny.
Bones: More police procedural than mystery, but I love it anyway.
