This mystery novel was one I picked up in my basement. Its cover gathering dust, I picked it up and decided to read this book which fashioned an intriguing title. The beginning of the story was well crafted and piqued my interest. It was the classic long lost identical twin brother separated at birth tale, However, when this twin brother, Derek Winslow, approaches the main character, Kyle Malachi, making this rather astounding claim, Kyle rather rudely orders Derek out of his house. After his fit of denial, Kyle realizes he hadn't acted very rationally and with his wife's help he calms down enough to realize that this claim may be true. But too late, his brother's dead on the floor of his hotel room bathroom. Being the mystery fan he is, Kyle decides to be his brother, after all they were identical, to find out the truth about his brother's murder,
At this point, I think that the story reached its peak. I won't give away what happens next, but I can tell you that after this point, the mystery began to unravel at a pretty quick pace, all of the reasons, clues, big secrets, began to reveal themselves, and the story lost its interest. Despite the cool idea and pretty well written introduction, the rest of the story and the mystery itself wasn't that good. It was a little disappointing because I feel like that the story could have been much better especially with the intriguing idea that it took on. Nonetheless, credit must be given to the author for the idea and the very witty references to many classic mystery novels.
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