Восемь идеальных убийств

Ambitious attempt to explore mystery tropes in a meta, wink-and-nod novel that ultimately fell flat for me. Among the pesky annoyances, Swanson repeatedly reminds the reader of the plot of these 8 murder mystery novels - once is necessary, twice is understandable, and any more looks like he wrote the book in separate sections and clumsily stitched it together, editor be damned. There was a plot hole involving the killer's timeline vs. his reading of these 8 mysteries that tripped me up, and I also detest death or suicide in lieu of justice. It's frustrating because it could have been an intricate sort of expose of classic mystery novels.