Instruments of Night

Thomas H. Cook

Sometime ago, I promised a review of Thomas H Cook's Instruments of Night. Well, I finally did get to it. The protagonist is a writer of a long-running mystery series, who's been asked to help investigate a crime that happened a long time ago. The protagonist himself is a damaged person, due to some traumatic experiences in early childhood. So the story siwtches between the present as he tries to delve deeper into the crime he is investigating and the past as flashbacks to those traumatic events keep occurring. I have to admit that I felt a little flat at the end of the book. Perhaps I've read too many books with dramatic twists and have become immured to them so that none in the story really had an impact on me. I had expected to be blown away but it was really more ho-hum.