The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld Reviews

As you can probably guess from the title of this book one of the major topics running through the book is murder. At heart this is a good old fashioned murder mystery, a "whodunnit" with a definite surprise when you finally realise who the villain is! But this book is so much more than that. The Interpretation bit of the title ...  Read the complete review

The Interpretation of Murder is one of those books you often see hanging around in charity shops. Clearly a popular title when it was first published, it has now become almost as ubiquitous in cut-price shops as The Da Vinci Code - a fate it does not really deserve. The Interpretation of Murder bases itself around Sigmund Freud's first ...  Read the complete review

After reading The Interpretation of Murder I cannot say it is the best book I have ever read, nor is the most compelling or well written but it is at least different. The Interpretation of Murder tells the story of Dr Younger who meets Sigmund Freud when he arrives in New York. The morning after this meeting however a stunningly ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review