A Funeral in Blue (William Monk Series #12) Book

If not for William Monk and his wife Hester, Funeral in Blue would have been a total disappointment. I like these characters so much I will suffer through much, it seems. In Funeral in Blue, every single characters spends way too much time asking themselves questions, navel gazing and occasionally contradicting themselves. Perry pads the story with repetitions of the victim's heroism and beauty. In fact, any time someone talks of the victim, her heroism and beauty is mentioned. It is exhausting and completely unnecessary. The entire book is repetitive - the victim's beauty and heroism, the accused murderer's sensual mouth and skill as a doctor, one woman's unrequited love for the doctor, and Monk's amnesia are all mentioned so often I started to wonder if Perry feared her readers suffered from Short Term Memory Loss.



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