Still Lives
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Tavia Gilbert
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Maria Hummel
A Reese Witherspoon book club pick
A Sunday Times crime club pick
Winner of Stylist book wars
The Pool's december bedtime book club pick
Shortlisted for amazon's best mystery/thriller of the year
As the party of the year gets underway, celebrities and patrons pour into the Rocque Museum to see Kim Lord - L.A.'s artist of the moment - stabbed, strangled, shot, and beaten. It's the opening night of Still Lives, Kim's new collection of shockingly graphic self-portraits, in which she impersonates the victims of America's most famous homicides, from Nicole Brown Simpson to the Black Dahlia.
The crowd eagerly await Kim's arrival, but she fails to appear at the gala. Among those gathered is Maggie Richter, a museum editor whose ex, Greg Shaw Ferguson, is in a relationship with Kim. When Kim is declared officially missing, and Greg is arrested on suspicion of murder, Maggie is drawn into an investigation of her own, haunted by the thought that Kim has suffered the same terrible fate as the women in her paintings.
Perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Sharp Objects and Big Little Lies.
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Kritikerstimmen
"A thrilling mystery... still keeps us up at night, it's that good." (Reese Witherspoon)
"A gripping and entertaining mystery, and a biting cultural critique that seeks to understand our obsession with the violent deaths of beautiful women." (Bustle)
"A taut thriller...she writes a hell of an ending." (LA Review of Books)
Unfortunately, I feel that these themes are never fully explored. Instead, much of the first-person narrator Maggie's thoughts revolve around the fact that her ex-boyfriend left her for the artist whose exhibitions she now has to work on. Any noticeable character development is shown to late in the story, in my opinion.
The murder mystery itself didn't convince me either. The pacing is slow for much of the novel, the large number of characters makes it difficult to keep track of everyone, and crucial clues to the solution are only introduced in the final quarter of the book.
What I find particularly disappointing is that the novel barely explores the multiple meanings of its title. Still Lives could refer not only to the paintings and the memory of the murdered women, but also to Maggie's own survival and her ability to move forward after her traumatic experiences.
The story contains numerous interesting ideas but rarely manages to bring them together. Even the ending misses an opportunity for a more meaningful use of language.
For me, Still Lives is, above all, a novel full of missed opportunities.
Novel full of missed opportunities
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