Reviews for There Hangs the Knife

The average rating for There Hangs the Knife based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-05 00:00:00 John Macrone This story was ok. It had a good plot and left the ending open to a sequel. Joanna, a woman with a checkered past, is now leading a respectable life and is after an art thief, who happens to also be from her past. Joanna, for personal reasons, combined with the art world issues, is after one of the top art thieves. Using her connections to the past she undertakes to trap the thief. As the story unfolds we find out just how wrong the best laid plans could be. A pleasant read, but not sure I am inspired enough to look into the possible sequel to this story.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-25 00:00:00 Pedro Thomo I don't know what it is, but I don't particularly like the main characters that Marcia Muller creates. I've read several of Muller's Sharon McCone books and McCone seems to slowly becoming more of a realistic character, but in the second book of the Joanna Stark series, I've got the same feeling that I'm being forced into accepting a character that is not quite real, not particularly likable and for all her supposed smarts is acting rather stupid. First Stark's an art lover and part owner of an art security firm but she can't seem to capture her ex-lover whose an art thief. So she decides on an elaborate scheme to draw out the thief with a fake painting � a scheme that she has told a whole lot of people about. And everyone Stark talks to seems to be particularly blind to all the weaknesses in her plan. And the plan appears to go bad almost immediately. But Stark persists in trying to rectify it, endangering others. This is a weak premise to begin with, a sad and disappointing solution and a cast of characters I don't like at all. I am disappointed that this author can't seem to come up with a stronger, smarter female character for this series.