For my first blog I am going to blog about the book Seattle Noir. These short stories are based in Seattle so i thought it was going to be pretty cool to read, since I have visited Seattle several times.
The short story that I read first was Red Tide. While reading this short story I found it very hard to pay attention to it. I was very slow and some of the things did not make sense. First of all I found it very hard to believe that McKean just happened to see an old friend out in a boat. Even if he had seen him the odds of him knowing anything about the murder was pretty ridiculous. The next thing that did not really make sense is how McKeans friend was so jumpy, which gave him away at the very beginning of the book. The thing that most of the class did not agree with me on is why McKean was on the job in the first place. The reason that he was on the case is he knew that this murder would never be solved unless he did something about. The cops that it was just an accident and not a murder. McKean was just being a good person by taking the case into his own hands. If someone was to ask me if they should read this short story I would have to tell them not to waste there time.
The second story I read was Tell Death Do Us. This book was very good from the very beginning. It started out with a rich woman coming into a P.I.'s office, which reminded me of all of the old P.I. movies. The way that the story had a twist to it also made it a lot better because I would have never of guessed that the husband would come into the same P.I. office. When Jake started tailing the man I had a feeling that something was up. Then when Jake was in the bar and was talking to his partner it did not seem that he could be watching the man very good. The ending was great how they both got what they deserve because anyone trying to kill another person then they deserve the same. I really enjoyed this book and I hope that the rest of these short story's are this good.
