The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld

Interpreting murders, minds and mysteries The Interpretation of Murder is the first novel from Jed Rubenfeld (see below) and was published in 2006. It won the Richard & Judy Book Club Best Read. I received the book as a gift at Christmas, and it came as a welcome break for me from reading John Rebus novels! The Book Although it is a novel - and therefore fiction - it is based around real events and at the end of the book is a section explaining which events in the book are real - and which are false. The book is set in 1909, in New York. It begins with Sigmund Freud and his two European compatriots Carl Jung and Sandor ...

The latest book to fall off a supermarket shelf and in to my shopping basket (honestly they just jump off the shelves I dont pick them up at all, ever) was this debut novel by Jed Rubenfeld. The cover has printed on it that it was a winner at the 2007 Galaxy Book awards (Best Read 2007 - premature given its not even August yet) which I have to admit attracted me to it - theres only so many 'war/soldier' books a girl can swallow before getting bored of the same plots. Of course it also sports a Richard and Judy book club sticker which generally is enough to make me tell the book to jump back on to the shelf it attacked me from (no my dislike of R&J book club is ...

My latest reading selection came from the ubiquitous Richard & Judy Book Club. This particular one is from their offerings for 2007 and it actually won their competition as their book of the year. Having not read all the others it was up against I can't comment on that result. However, their selections are usually pretty good reads and it certainly helps take out the wondering about what to read next. This one certainly did not disappoint so I can stay faithful to the scheme. Encouraging reading must be a good thing in general and should be supported. This book is predominantly set out as a detective novel. However, as it is set in New York in 1909, it can ...