stonepicnicking_okapi

Yes! I really love the puzzle aspect of the locked room mystery. And I checked (for commentor above), it's 2 inches thick and 937 pages.

I definitely get that sense (of female-victims) with modern-setting crime (especially anything labeled a 'thriller') novels. But I suppose it's true for historical crime, too. I sometime prefer mostly-male ensembles because I often cringe when they introduce women at all. They get done so poorly, I'd rather not have them at all most of time.

But, to give an example from this book, I took the first section (which is called Familiar as the Rose in Spring) and it's 8 of the most famous locked-room short stories. 3 of the 8 had female victims (Rue Morgue, The Speckled Band, and Lord Dunsay's Two Bottles of Relish.)

So I don't know.

BTW, I've been filling more spaces in my Book Bingo, and I found a Indian female lawyer-detective set in the 1920's which I like. And I started Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie (but I haven't gotten far).