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Friday, December 5, 2025

A Particularly Nasty Case by Adam Kay

 Requested this because I thought it would be a medical thriller typical of the genre with a practicing doctor investigating the death of a colleague. I was wrong. 

I should have just deleted this from my e-reader after the first couple of chapters but I held on until the completely underwhelming conclusion. I am trying to come up with some positive thoughts about the book but it wasn't funny, the characters were all quite horrible people, and the mystery was very predictable. It was also heavily into gay relationships and a skewed presentation of bipolar mental illness. The outlandish things that the main character did ranged from horrendous to criminal.  I haven't read any other of this author's books and now I know I never will.

I tried to listen to the audio book but did not like the narrator's voice at all so I returned it to the library. 

Do not recommend this at all. 

This is a standalone and not part of any series.

Genre and tags - meant to be witty but it's not. Heavy gay relationships. Mental illness. Not a medical thriller or even a mystery. Murder. Revenge.