The Innocence of Father Brown is the first book in the Father Brown series and is made up of a dozen or so short stories. In each story Father Brown, a Catholic priest, somehow happens upon a murder or mystery and to the surprise of everyone at the scene he is the only one that is able to make sense of what really happened. The stories were okay... nothing really that memorable. I think in general I just have a problem with a mystery series that involves a character that isn't a detective of some sort always just happening upon some type of murder by random chance. It just seems so unlikely that I can never get past it. I know Lucinda loves TV shows of that sort (Murder She Wrote, Hart to Hart) but whenever I watch them I always think that Jessica Fletcher has the worst luck because she can't take a trip somewhere without someone being murdered. B-
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Mystery Book # 57 - The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first book in the Father Brown series and is made up of a dozen or so short stories. In each story Father Brown, a Catholic priest, somehow happens upon a murder or mystery and to the surprise of everyone at the scene he is the only one that is able to make sense of what really happened. The stories were okay... nothing really that memorable. I think in general I just have a problem with a mystery series that involves a character that isn't a detective of some sort always just happening upon some type of murder by random chance. It just seems so unlikely that I can never get past it. I know Lucinda loves TV shows of that sort (Murder She Wrote, Hart to Hart) but whenever I watch them I always think that Jessica Fletcher has the worst luck because she can't take a trip somewhere without someone being murdered. B-
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