Reviews for Midnight Rainbow

The average rating for Midnight Rainbow based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-08 00:00:00 Jeffrey Fernandea This is the first Scobie Malone novel we have read. And very pleased to have found him. Although his gruff exterior and “I am always right” attitude and his genial relationships with known villains, hardly seemed to fit with his adoring fatherly attitude to his grown up kids and his tender and considerate loving attitude to his wife. Still, I’m pleased to find a character with some decent humanity about him. And even more pleased to have found an Aussie detective. There were many suspects for the crime and Malone investigated each one, finally working out who killed who and why. It was a bit complicated and I’m still not sure I understand why the table of business men were gunned down in the first place. But the characters and plot developments were interesting enough not to let the outcome truly worry me too much. It was much more believable than James Bond. I hope more of Scobie is on audio book for future travels.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-28 00:00:00 Pasha Yudkin I enjoy Scobie Malone mysteries. He's a good character, an honest, hard-working detective. I've been a bit critical about some of the Malone novels before because the suspect is settled on too early, with not really enough clues and the rest of the book is about how Scobie finally gets his man. This was not one of those. There are more than enough suspects, but even at that I did not even come close to seeing who was the actual killer(s) or why. In some ways the solution was out of left field, in others it fit perfectly. It's like there were so many possible threads to the mystery, between the finances and corrupt officials and Chinese interference that it was hard to pick the right one, for us and for the investigators. I mean that in a good way. You can read my whole review on my blog, Carol's Notebook.