The Kind Worth Killing 죽여 마땅한 사람들 by Peter Swanson

" 英語も簡明で読み易く、ストーリー展開も読み出したら止まらない面白さでした。他の本の半分の時間（約一週間）で読了しました。この作者の他の本も読んでみたいと思いました...." " 英語も読みやすく、通勤時間に読むのにグッドでした！でも、乗り越し注意です！後半、私は朝2度乗り越しました...." " 第一章は緩やかな流れ、LilyとTedの交換殺人を予見させる。第二章は急流の展開、LilyとMirandaの女同士の手練手管により男が翻弄され、複数殺人の連鎖の世界、殺人の動機は男と女の情交関係と女同士の嫉妬なのだ。第三章はLilyと刑事Kimballの戦い。刑事の推理と尾行により殺人犯は逮捕されるが精神病鑑定の逃げ道が用意された。しかし、父親から来た手紙から、複数の死体を隠した井戸がある土地が売却され、ブルドーザで整地されることになった。これで一巻の終わりか！まあ、面白い内容でした。この著者の作品を何冊か読んでみよう...." " he plotting is labyrinthine & very well organized, with a fine surprise ending. Quite good indeed. So all the more pity that PS can't write well. No dramatic tension, no atmosphere, no emotional innards, no good sentences. Plod, plod, plod, I got up at 7 and jumped in the shower, then I dressed and drove downtown, found a parking place in front of the bank...... This is not "sparse" writing, it's not "elegant" writing, it's Boring writing. Nor has he created characters. Everybody sounds and behaves the same way. No one has an inner life or any interesting quirks, even those who behave in the most weird or even psychopathic fashion, they are all just ciphers. That makes it very hard to keep up with the changing narrative points of view: all the alternating first-person narrators sound exactly alike so one keeps forgetting who is telling the story. Some authors do this sort of thing really well, but PS is not one of them....."

심리소설, 미스터리소설, 가정소설, 형사물 등 다양한 요소를 보여주는 작품이다. 문장이나 표현등이 난해하지 않아서 읽는데 큰 문제는 없는 작품이었다. 사이코패스의 전형적인 인물들이 등장하고 주요 등장인물들도 부분적 결함(?)을 보여주는 작품이다. 인물들간의 간장감이나 이야기의 전개가 예측하기 어려운 부분이 많아지기 때문에 한 번 읽기 시작하면 계속 읽어야 하는 작품이다. 감정이입의 대상이나 인물들이 없어도 작품에 몰입되어서 즐길 수 있는 작품이다.

'Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.'  본문에서