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The Final Round

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Twenty-five years ago, six friends from Oxford created a pub quiz which ballooned into a charity affair. Each of them went onto bigger and better things, and led their own lives - each with some sordid secrets. At the twenty-fifth anniversary quiz, a bonus final round is put over the speakers. A final round about those first six, and their dirty laundry is aired in public. After one of them is found dead, with stab wounds all over his body and his tongue cut out, the other five worry that they will be next. Who was behind the final round? Who stabbed him? And who actually killed him?

The book was quite well-written, although by the very nature of the story there are dozens of characters by the end that you have to keep track of! My main gripe is that the story is quite predictable - the murder weapon itself has a big clue as to who may be behind it. I don't know whether the characters were pleasant on the whole - they're all shown to be a little duplicitous, so not entirely likeable. I've given it three stars, as it's a decent book, but it's just a tad predictable for my tastes!

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An unoriginal and unrealistic crime novel; the police never release full details of a crime to the press!! All of the characters are self absorbed, entitled and incredibly difficult to like making this a bit of a tedious read unfortunately, I found I didn't care who the murderer was or what their reasons for committing the crime were. Sorry!

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