Book review: The Oxford Murders
A student recommended The Oxford Murders to me a while back, and this weekend, I finally had time to check it out from the library and read it.
It wasn’t the worst book in the world, but I’m really not recommending you run out and read it, either. The story centers around a nameless Argentinian mathematics graduate student who has come to Oxford to study. He soon finds himself surrounded by odd deaths with themed messages and symbols left at each one. The answer turns out to be about the most dull (or ironic, depending on how you look at it) solution possible.
Along the way, the reader is occasionally presented with math problems, one of which is on the front cover of the book and is never actually solved once you see it in the book. It really doesn’t matter because the math is a red herring anyway.
The book seems like a very watered down attempt at mimicking The Da Vinci Code (which I actually liked), and it really doesn’t step up to the challenge.
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:57 pm
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